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...

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...

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,...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

With an HIV/AIDS infection rate among pregnant women of 2.4%, the Kongo-Logre Health Clinic now has a health worker, Olives, whose sole job is to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS by educating affected families and providing free, lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV)...

The first set of fifty desks will be transported to Piitanga on Monday or Tuesday, February 4 or 5. They are dual desks constructed by a talented welder in Pelungu with sturdy metal frames. Yakote Women Farmers was able to raise $3,785 to furnish the new school, these...