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Ghana ACT
Ho, Ghana
March 18, 2012
Throughout the summer of 2011 we received 31 volunteers to participate in our various programs. The volunteers were enthusiastic and proved themselves to be passionate,
September 17, 2010
While our Community Development volunteers spent their days working on the construction of a new nursery for the community of Saviefe – Deme, others taught classes at the already
July 28, 2010
Four volunteers - Tom Sutter, Sol Tangvik, Evan Yandle and Liam Lynch - helped begin construction of a nursery school in Saviefe-Deme this summer, 2010. Saviefe-Deme is a rural
July 11, 2010
Last week Ghana lost its quarter finals soccer match to Uruguay and was eliminated from the World Cup. Despite this loss, the people could not be happier with their team's
June 27, 2010
Last night Ghana defeated the U.S. in a 2-1 overtime victory and is advancing to the quarter finals. This is the first time the World Cup has ever been hosted
Ghana ACT has been approached by several directors of Ghanaian NGO's, and we are currently looking at the possibility of partnering with these organizations. Before partnering we must inspect their
Outreach Days with the Eye Clinic
Ghana ACT, by Nicole Kennerly
July 29, 2011
I'm in my second week with the traveling eye clinic, and I'm starting to get the hang of it. The clinic has an outreach van driven by Reverend Bankas that pulls in front of our house around 6:30 am most mornings. That sounds too early in U.S. speak, but over here it feels just right. Sunlight and the bustle of the streets are already streaming through my bedroom window. Along with Reverand Bankas, I currently work with another Ghana ACT volunteer, an optometrist, a Ghanian woman named Salome (who offered to be my "Ghana Mother"), and two twenty-four year olds from Ghana named Livingston and Kingdom. Among us we divide the duties of greeting and registering the patients while taking their blood pressure and pulse. From there we direct them...
In Your Own Words
Ghana ACT, by Nicole Kennerly
July 29, 2011
One of my favorite things about Ghana Act is chatting with our chef extradonnaire Linda. Linda not only cooks our daily dinner, but she also makes us groundnut paste (peanut butter) and other treats like sliced fresh fruit. I call her "Linda The Business Woman" because she is putting herself through preventative medicine nursing school with her skills in the kitchen, both with Ghana Act and by selling breakfast porridge on campus to pay for her transportation fees to and from school everyday. Needless to say, she works very hard and commands my respect as a person. But beyond that, she is one of the few Ghanians, especially women, who is my age and who I come into meaningful contact with on a daily basis. Most of the people I've...
Reclaiming the Morning
Ghana ACT, by Nicole Kennerly
July 29, 2011
A Ghana favorite for me is the morning time. Kids skip to school in pairs, adults sweep and wash, the sun hasn't heated the earth. The morning here is not merely a time to rush through before the day ''officially begins;'' in Ghana, the day ''officially begins'' when I lift my head from the pillow. The difference in pace of life here allows one to savor more morning things: I leisurely sip hot tea on the porch and alternate between chatting with the other volunteers and observing the morning life in Ghana. Sometimes I write in my journal my goals for my day or I may take time to cook a proper breakfast of a fried egg with avocado and sweet bread. Maybe this is something I can keep up...
Ghana - You're Ghana Love It!
Ghana ACT, by Julia Rizzo
April 08, 2011
Traveling to Ghana has been the most incredible experience of my life. Going as a solo volunteer, I was arranged to do a home-stay with the school’s proprietress, Mama Susie, and was immediately welcomed and greeted by the most cheerful woman you could ever meet. We quickly became a tight-knit family, along with two other students from the school, and did everything together. I learned so much about the culture of lifestyle of Ghana through my family than I could have ever learned on my own – from washing to cooking to touring the city.As a new volunteer, there is not much I can tell you to expect other than be prepared to have your life changed dramatically by the most incredible people you will ever meet. Ghanaians do not...