2023 Fall update Food Programs
Lisa and Janet, Clinical Nutrition Assistant. Before we buy, checking food prices in the Bolgatanga market.Loading bags of maize, beans, and rice for delivery to one junior high.Some recipients of the lunch program at the Girls Junior High in Kongo.2023 Fall updates...
Fall 2023 project updates for Yakote Women Farmers!
Barbara is a scholarship recipient for her studies at Savannah College of Education A contingent of 6 volunteers will travel to the Nabdam District of northern Ghana in January 2024. In this first update, please let me tell you about our biggest program, college...
January 30, 2020: Julie A. of Portland, Oregon – A recently retired teacher volunteers!
For many years, David and Lisa would come home after visiting Ghana and share their projects and experiences with me. I was so impressed by the number of ways they were supporting people in the remote upper region of Kongo, Ghana, Africa. Not until coming to Kongo...
January 10, 2020: Operating room equipment shipped to Kongo
Five years ago many of you chipped in to have an operating table, an anesthesia machine, and two patient monitors crated and shipped to Ghana. It was then transported by road to Kongo where they are now in use. Most recently a group of doctors is performing free...
January 7, 2020: HIV Prevention and treatment to prevent mother to child transmission of AIDS
Lisa and Olives are meeting to discuss food for the HIV patients. We are sitting on the small veranda in front of our rooms at the guest house. Lisa and David’s niece, Britney, administered the YWF nutrition programs two years ago. She was the first to meet Olives,...
January 7, 2020: Work with farmers
We are extremely fortunate to have Tom Demeo with us on this trip. He has a strong background in colluding a PhD related to agriculture and forestry. He’s now visited 15 farms and organized two workshops. One workshop occurred last Friday, another for this Thursday....
January 2, 2020: Five volunteers bristling with energy
This is our third day in the village and already there’s lots of work underway. Teachers David Stone and Julie Aquilizan are intensely preparing to give a two day teachers workshop targeted to new teachers that have completed the teaching college scholarship program....
October 27, 2019: Why?
Why? Why do fewer young Nabdam women apply for YWF college scholarship programs? Why do girls in the Nabdam district get lower scores than boys on country-wide achievement exams? Despite roughly equal enrollment of males and females at all levels of schooling, why are...
February 15, 2019: Something we take for granted-Farm animals behind fences
The complete lack of sturdy fencing for farm animals can lead to a charming first impression in rural Ghana. Mother goats with their tiny, leaping offspring outside your door, a dozen skinny cows SLOWLY crossing the road, donkeys braying at your window. Not to...
February 6, 2019: Bolga Baskets
Always on our minds during trips to Ghana is, “How many baskets can we fit into our luggage as we return?” By purchasing baskets we help support forty women in two weaving cooperatives, one in Kongo and the other in Yakote. To make enough money for all of their...