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HUNGER KEEPS A CHILD FROM LEARNING – READING CAMP DAY 4
I asked the team to tell me what moment was special for them today. Sara answered immediately “Victoria smiled”. I have written about Victoria almost every day this week. She is a classic example of why we work here to provide education not only for the children but for the parents as well. Victoria suffers…
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IT’S ALL ABOUT EDUCATION-READING CAMP DAY 3
There are posters and billboards everywhere in Ghana. The medical warnings on Malaria, Buruli Ulcer, Cancer and Tuberculosis are graphic and shocking. But even so, if you cannot read, you may see the pictures but never know what to do when it happens to you. Many people responded to Ian’s story yesterday about Moses, who…
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HEALTH CARE, A MAJOR ISSUE-READING CAMP DAY 2
As ususal, our day begins very early. We leave the hotel by 6:30 and arrive at the Preschool by 8:30. Yes, it really does take that long to get from Accra to our destination. Morning traffic is always hectic and the roads are very bad. Here is Haley Wilson’s view of Day 1: “How to…
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MALARIA KILLS A CHILD EVERY 30 SECONDS-READING CAMP DAY 1
Today has been a marvelous day and later tonight Haley will be sharing her account. I know the title seems shocking when our reading camp is going so well but the truth is that most of these children suffer from Malaria. Some are suffering right now. Her name is Victoria. She is 6 years old.…
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A VISIT WITH THE ARCHBISHOP OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, WEST AFRICA
We attended the Church of the Transfiguration, Haatso, Anglican. The Most. Rev. Dr. Justice O. Akrofi, Bishop of Accra and Archbishop of West Africa, was celebrating. It was also confirmation and they commissioned a new board of Directors for their school. They were quite surprized to see those of us from the US in attendance.…
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PHOTOS OF THE MISSION TEAM
Today has been so long for me. I was up at 4:30am. At Mercia’s school by 5:30. We helped prepare for the graduation ceremony. The team arrived by 9:30 and left at 4pm. I am just too tired to write but pictures are worth a thousand words.
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FOUR US TEENS AT THE CULTURAL MARKET OF ACCRA
Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope has been doing short term mission trips to Ghana for the last 5 years but this year marks a first. We have four teens from Maryland and Virginia joining us to help with a Reading Camp in the village of Akramaman. Last year we brought our first teen, Tyler Brewer, to help…
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ALL IS WELL–TEAM #2 HAS ARRIVED
It is always fun to watch the faces of a new team as they view Ghana for the first time. That joy doubles when the new team are teens traveling to Africa for the first time. As we began traveling to the hotel they experience the heavy traffic, venders selling their wares to the van…
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The first official Preschool Graduation at St. Paul’s
Getting up a 4:45am is not high on my list of things I love to do, however, when it involves seeing “my children” graduate from preschool, I was up before the alarm even went off. Saturday, July 24, 2010, was a momentous occasion in the life of St. Paul’s Preschool and Akramaman village. Just 3…
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Our Mission is Finished – by Beth Hester, R.N.
To paraphrase someone a long time ago Our mission is done. I have seen the most wonderful learning and excitement and appreciation on the faces of so many Ghanaian women this week it is hard to count the number. It is amazing the way they listen so attentively as they soak up new information on…
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