the past couple of days have really flown by. i have been working in the amassaman office with the two other volunteers, putting the marketing strategy together. the work is interesting to me,and it is refreshing to remind myself that i have skills and talents that i can apply to my work here and elsewhere. i dont know that i realized how burnt out ( Read more... )

let's see, where did i leave off.....oh yes, cape coast. other than cape castle, the main slave prison, and the proximity to the ocean, there seemed to be little that suggested the town was a tourist destination. it was interesting to see the differences between the town and the other places in ghana that i have seen. it maintained the feel of a ( Read more... )

If you are interested in the work I am doing in Ghana and more about the microloan beneficiary I am working with, then you can read the article that I wrote:

It takes a village: Reaching one woman at a time through microloans

Cynthia Boakye juggles not one but two successful businesses in the small village of Fise, located in the Greater Accra region ( Read more... )

this weekend was the stuff that short stories are made of. christina and i spent the weekend in cape coast, which with the slave prisons and beaches is ghana's primary tourist destination. as with most things in ghana, it took some doing just to get there. after trying unsuccessfully to flag down a tro tro from pokuase we jumped in a taxi to get to ( Read more... )

had an opportunity to jump back online to write a bit more about life in ghana. we arrived home from the weekend on the coast, fingers crossed that the electricity had kicked back on while we were away. it was out for over a day before we left. luckily, we do have electricity (ghana heat is intense, even for a floridan, and that ceiling fan is more ( Read more... )

there is no way that i can recap my last week, but i will try....on tuesday hayford took me and christina on a tour of accra, my first time there. we are staying about 30 minutes outside of accra in the town of pokuase, and working in the rural villages surrounding it. accra was a bit of a shock. it was much, much poorer and dirtier than i imagined ( Read more... )

internet is scarce, so i'm running a couple of days behind. here is my yesterday, almost two days ago, your yesterday, almost two days ago ( Read more... )

jumped on quickly to post about my first night here. christina is nice enough to let me use her laptop. kicked myself again today for not remembering to bring it. on one hand, it is nice to be slightly out of touch (i am, after all, in africa). but, i have so much that i want to capture and write about, and it would be nice to post whenever i felt ( Read more... )

i arrived in ghana safe and sound, and in just 4 hours have crammed in what feels like days worth of experiences. i was picked up at the airport by hayford siaw, who runs volunteer partnership for west africa. i was already impressed by what i had read about him and what he has done with this organization in just over two years, but was doubly ( Read more... )

so it looks like i'll use livejournal to post about my ghana trip instead of switching blogging platforms. as somebody pointed out, it is nice to have all of my travel entries in one place, and time is now running out for me to learn something new. i leave in a week and a half, and after looking outside this morning to see snow on the ground, i ( Read more... )