Category: 2011

  • “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb

      All Photos by Tana Lopez and woveneye.com Today is so exciting. The team leaves the US and will arrive tomorrow, Friday.  Since this will be posted very late tonight, many of you will be reading this as the team arrives in Ghana, 9am US time. 16 people, 5 different states, many meeting for the…

  • SHE NEEDS YOUR HELP

    We met Lady last year while visiting the patients at Amasaman Hospital.  She was a young girls of nine, living in the bush with her family.  When the public health nurse was told of Lady’s condition she gathered a team to investigate the family. The 7 children were kept naked and had never seen strangers—not…

  • ON A HILL FAR AWAY

          Mornings come way to early in Ghana—6 am here is still 2 am in the US and it takes several days for my body to catch up to the difference in time.  It is easy to stay up late at night (it is 1 am right now) but then I want to…

  • At Home in Ghana

    I felt it as soon as I stepped off the plane. That feeling you get when all that surrounds you is familiar and comforting. Like Mac and cheese or hot chocolate. Even before Mercia and Sophia came running to greet me with big hugs, I was at home. The van now sports our new logo.…

  • HOW MANY BATHROOMS ARE IN YOUR HOUSE?

    How many bathrooms at in your house?  Mine has 2 and there are only 2 of us living there.  Recently, the bathroom at an office where I do some accounting was shut down.  I had to leave one building and walk to another to find a working toilet.  It was inconvenient but, my employer understands…