Category: 2018
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Sew perfect. . . . no it’s not misspelled
Last summer I received a Facebook message from a friend from my days at Epiphany Episcopal Church in Timonium, Maryland. Susie Necker and I had been former choir members and our children had grown up together in Springdale. Now she lives in South Carolina and I’m in Florida. Our daughters reconnected us on Facebook and…
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I’ll See You Next Year . . . . . . . . by Joanna Haslem
While the rest of the team left last Sunday, I stayed an extra week to work at theReading Camp in Akramaman . It was quite a difference from teaching in Boate. At the latter school, children had never before experienced Reading Camp. At first, they were very shy and quiet. It took nearly the full…
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What is Reading Camp? by Solomon Worlako Amesimeku
I came to the GMH Summer Reading Camp, 2018, wondering exactly how it is going to be like. I was expecting it’s just going to be lots of reading. To be candid, the GMH Reading Camp is a lot more than I expected. It’s got lots of fun filled activities, that arouse and sustain the…
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Just how do you dress when you take your children to the doctor?
Today at Akramaman, where we are sponsoring a reading camp this week, the local mothers brought their babies and toddlers to the Health Clinic for check ups. There are no doctors in residence but public health nurses run the show. New mothers are given baby weighing cards, told about immunizations, and given other helpful heath…
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Was it only yesterday ?. . . . By Debi Frock
In August of 2010, six teens, a photographer, and two teachers embarked on a mission to create a Reading Camp at a small village named Akramaman. Little did we know that this was the beginning of something spectacular. Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope invited forty children to that reading camp. The next year it was sixty children,…
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Five Books Do Make a Difference by Rev. Becki Neumann
On Thursday afternoon as the children of Boate village were leaving Reading Camp, they called out, “See you tomorrow,” and we Americans were calling back, “See you tomorrow!” And then it hit me, I would not be saying that tomorrow, or the next day, or the next. At best, I will get to say it…
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What a remarkable experience by Joanna Haslem
What a remarkable experience my first summer reading camp in Ghana has been. I find it enriching to my soul to find a world so different from my own, yet so the same. Ghanaians have the same needs, the same emotions, joys and hardships as we do. Children behave as children all over the world,…
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My name is Julianna Akrong
My name is Julianna Akrong. I was a classroom teacher in Ghana for twenty-two years. I taught at all levels from basic class one to high school. I became a Headmaster of a school and then Director in Charge of School Management and Supervision for Basic and Secondary Schools in Ghana. This is my first…
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A New Year, A New Village by Bruce Neumann
A new year, a new village. Once again, I am leading art with my two Ghanaian Teachers, Auntie Yvonne and Uncle Collins, in the newest of Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope Reading Camps in Boate. On Monday the children made friendship crowns to go with the poem, ‘Friends,” which says, “Friends, friends, 1, 2, 3; all my…
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One Child at a Time by Janet Neumann, US Volunteer
Day one of reading camp for me was both familiar and yet, new. In past years, as the bus with Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope volunteers drives up to a school, smiling children would come running. I love seeing the children waving and calling out “Auntie Janet, Auntie Janet.” This year my greeting was much quieter, which…
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