Our Story: From Trinity Yard School to Trinity Beach Villas
Trinity Yard School is where this whole story really begins, though for me, it starts a few years earlier, on a beach at Cape Three Points in the spring of 2001.
I’d spent years studying traditional Ewe music and painting, and surfing the beach breaks of the Volta Region, before I took a long journey west chasing unridden waves and the slow, rich life of rural Ghana. Cape Three Points pulled me in, its vibrant, welcoming community, its untouched coastal paradise. I slept on the beach for a few weeks, surfed virgin waves, walked the coast, and fell in love with the village. With the blessing of the elders and the chief, I made a home in the coastal forest.
Three years later, I was given the honorary title of development chief. That’s what led me, in 2007, to found Trinity Yard School.
Trinity Yard School
The school offers the youth of the local villages a fee-free high school education, along with a handful of programs that have grown up around it over the past two decades.
Trinity Yard F.C., our soccer program, has produced national team players and still competes in youth and division leagues today. Our career development program trains students for 2–3 years in a vocation of their choosing, and has opened the door to gainful employment and entrepreneurship for hundreds of them. The after-school program has raised literacy levels among younger students while introducing them to cultural arts and sustainable agriculture. Our drum and dance group, more than twenty years strong, keeps traditional music and dance alive for the next generation. And our farm, organic fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, and moringa, chickens and three fishponds, feeds the school and our beach kitchen, and doubles as a living classroom for our agricultural classes.
Maybe our proudest contribution to this coast, though, has been surfing itself, bringing it to the region, and with it a surf culture built around keeping these waters clean for whoever rides them next.
Trinity Beach Villas
Trinity Beach Villas is the newest chapter, and the slowest one, a decade in construction before it officially opened in 2025. It shares the same tranquility and raw coastal beauty that has kept me here for a quarter century.
We build with what the land gives us and hire the people who live on it: thatched roofs, raffia, timber, local hands. First, we support this community. Second, and only because the first comes first , we try to offer a kind of rest that goes past comfort, down into something closer to real contentment.
Why We Do This
Every stay here is part of an exchange, of ideas, resources, energy, that funds the school and, we hope, leaves you with a little more awareness than you arrived with. It’s all a work in progress, same as we are. If you’re willing, come take part, in whatever way that calls to you, in building a stronger future for Cape Three Points.
— Rory Jackson