Day 9 Today is our first day of labour. At about 9:30, we went to the playground that was built by team 1 and team 2 to see what improvements could be made. We discovered, along with the help of Sabre’s engineer, that the majority of the bamboo was rotten and had to be demolished....Read More
By Isaac With just a week to go, I am going through my kit with Mum and have had my haircut- much shorter than usual!! At last my white skin has seen, albeit brief, sunshine to acclimatize itself for the Ghanaian weather. I am looking forward to the challenges we will face, knowing that together...Read More
Day 9 Today, we worked on the playground in the morning and completed the construction of the monkey bars and seesaw. All that is left for us to do now is the painting of the play area. After the usual sweaty walk and a delicious lunch of ‘Red Red’ (spicy, tomatoey, bean stew with fried...Read More
Apologies that this blog is slightly out of sync – days 8-11 have got waylaid but have now been recovered and will be updated retrospectively. Meanwhile, please enjoy the following update! Day 12 The morning commenced with an early start working down at the poultry farm. We were busy working when we heard some sad...Read More
Impressions of Ghana Now we have been in Ghana a while, Partner Ghana has asked us to include some of our impressions in our blog. As a team we have been overwhelmed by people’s generosity and their sense of community – right from the start they have been willing to help us. We have been...Read More
Day 4 This morning we went to the palace in Dwabor and we met the ‘nana’ family. They welcomed us into their family and community and we gave them apple schnapps; it felt good being part of the community. When we came back to the area where we sleep, we were swarmed by little children....Read More
By Tom Miles, Group Leader Only one week to go. After a well-deserved weekend at the beach, we are back on project work. Sports Day was a huge success. Last night we were all exhausted. Controlling 250 primary school kids was a huge task. They loved it! We also finished the last painting at the...Read More
Lots of great new photos up on www.facebook.com/PartnerGhana: Weydon-Dwabor arrival and sports day, Chesham-Brenu’s arts and crafts day and SWPS-Bantuma batik workshop. It is great to see so many Ghanaian students benefitting from all the educational projects under way. Even more inspiring is the partnership between the UK and Ghana buddies, who work together to...Read More
Day 5 Today was half project, half exploration. It felt good to get a lot done on the playground – we all really want to get it finished. The afternoon was spent looking around Elmina castle with our buddies. We all feel like we are making really good friends. We were quite a tourist attraction...Read More
Day 1 We all gathered at Weydon School at 8am and packed tightly into two buses. Sol donned the ‘hat’ and we were away! Rather hectic transfer of bags to trollies but no major mishaps. Really smooth flights, Naomi and Lucie even managed to sweet talk the staff on the flight deck to go into...Read More
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