Gone To Ghana

Chiropractor needed! Throw your soggy down jackets and snow skis away!  Escape the winter blahs!  Busy (weary) volunteer chiropractor providing free treatment in the sunny, hot, dry, and impoverished Upper East Region of northern Ghana urgently needs unpaid associate to share the patient load.  Good potential for growth, with more than twenty new patients weekly.  All [...]

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            Horse, Colts and other ‘tings’   A rare sight here … a horse. In fact, in the four weeks here, I have seen two. This rather undernourished horse is owned by the esteemed chief of Yakote, a village not far from Kongo where we are settled.  A horse is [...]

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    Large round market baskets $25  Everyone seems to love the authentic Bolga baskets and we are right here at the source.  Considering the importance of every dollar contributed for projects here, it seems reasonable to offer our friends the opportunity to pre-order baskets for $25 each, with profits going toward the food projects* [...]

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  The average, middle class working person aspires to own a small motorcycle as their primary form of transportation.  Because salaries are quite low ($200-$300/month) most people will never own a car.  The ratio of motorcycles to autos at this gas station is around 30 to 1, comparable to what you see on the streets. [...]

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First School Day – fainting episode leads to ‘Incantations’  From David Stone It was a week ago today, Monday October 12. The aforementioned event cannot be erased from my thoughts. After seeking perspective from close African colleagues, I now can speak of it with some sense of understanding.   It was a normal Monday. Ghana [...]

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