Nathan Nelson We’ve met with several communities recently who have requested assistance, or who have previously received assistance and now want to discuss further development needs. The first part of the process is getting to know them. While a baseline survey will eventually yield solid data about a village, we start by asking them to tell us …
A trailer for a quiz programme here in Ghana called the Good Life Game Show features the presenter asking the question “Malaria often kills people – true or false?”. When I first saw it, I thought it was crazy. It’s so obvious. Then I realised how relaxed attitudes towards malaria are here. Many of the …
I played the recording straight back to the kingfisher. Think I may have freaked it out a bit.
As demonstrated by one of the builders at Bimma.
Last week we took a trip to a nearby village to discuss their sanitation action plan with them. This was the village where they’d previously shown up an hour and a half early and gone home and I’d met the guy who claimed to have spent 12 years in Côte d’Ivoire who may be crazy. …
When we arrived in Kumasi we stayed at the Four Villages Inn, run by Chris Scott, a fun, welcoming and conscientious Canadian who does an awesome line in french toast and sausage breakfasts and putting the world to rights. Four Villages remains a haven we’ll scurry back to if Ghana all gets to be too …
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