Land | Food | Nature | People
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 …
Communities here will traditionally advertise when someone has died and when the funeral and wake will be. When you drive through the villages you frequently see large posters like this along the road. I drive past this one twice a day when I go to and from work, and it always makes me smile as …
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. …
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