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Guess who’s going to Ghana?
For the last 5 summers the core team of Becki Neumann+, Bruce Neumann and Zach Neumann have been traveling to Ghana with adult and teen volunteers to run a Reading Camp. The camp targets children who are struggling to learn to read in English–not their native language. Not only is learning English a struggle but…
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,400 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 40 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
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A few innocent questions – by Kimberley Langston
The several days of reading camp were so busy and full of activity, but there were two times when things slowed down and some great conversations developed that I wanted to share. The first happened out at the school while the kids were playing after lunch. There are a little over 60 kids registered in…
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Pineapples, Bananas and Mangos— Oh My -by Kimberley Langston
By this point in the trip, the whole team is craving a huge, cold, crisp salad. We cannot eat the produce here unless it is cooked because the water it is washed with is not normally safe water. Back in the States, our family eats a lot of fruits and veggies so it’s been wonderful…
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If I had grown up in Akramaman Village – by Rev. Rebekah Neumann
If I had grown up in Akramaman Village where we run reading camp, at my preschool graduation I would have stood on the open air stage and in my biggest big girl voice and announced to the world, “MY NAME IS REBEKAH AND I AM 5 YEARS OLD!” My family would be in the audience…
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Reading and love – by Zach Neumann
Today is the final day of reading camp. This was my fifth reading camp in Ghana and each year, the final day brings a swath of thoughts and emotions as we say goodbye to our children in our village. I am sometimes asked why I come to Ghana to do a reading camp in a…
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What happens in Ghana – by Scott Lyons and Bruce Neumann
Scott Lyons I am on a mission trip to Ghana with Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope and my job is to replace dangerously cracked plastic beams of a playground set. My teammate, Bruce Neumann and I are using a heavy, dense wood for the replacement. We are also painting St. Paul’s preschool in Akramaman. Bruce painted it…
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I thought I had been exposed to everything. . . by Elizabeth Werbiskis
One of the things I requested of Debi Frock, founder of Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope, on this Ghana trip was that I get the opportunity to do more than just help with Reading Camp, sight-see and shop. She granted my wish and then some! Tuesday, Debi and I went to Denchira, a new village, to deliver…
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TIA-(This Is Africa) Lessons Learned from a first-timer – by Kimberley Langston
This Is Africa (TIA): Lessons Learned from a First Timer It does not take long being in Africa for a Type-A personality like myself to experience two important acronyms: GMT – Ghanaian Maybe Time: The time when an event, pick-up, arrival, etc. is anticipated, because there is no telling when it will actually happen for…
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Created to Read
Preparations – by Debra Gustin We all had breakfast out on the patio and watched while Accra bustled around us. The bus came to pick us up and we finally headed to the school. The bus was packed to the roof with suitcases and supplies for camp. It took us just over 1 ½ hours to…
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