On Saturday January 19th, the Original and New Kekeli groups met for the first time. They piled into a school bus we rented from the Ghana Education Service and headed west to PramPram Beach for a day of socializing and checking out the ocean. Although the excursion was out of the ordinary for normal Kekeli…
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Back to Ghana Next Week!
It is New Year’s Day, which means in less than 10 days we are embarking on our return to Ghana. Much unlike the first time I traveled to Africa, I feel quite relaxed about heading halfway across the world. This is because in many ways, Ghana is like a second home. For example, as I…
Read MoreVisiting Villages to Learn – Post #2
Steph, Jess, and I have continued with our busy schedules, bumping along the bush roads daily and enjoying new adventures. We have now visited 19/20 Kekeli women in their villages, a feat we are all quite impressed with. We had originally planned to visit at least half, but realized that the unvisited half would not…
Read MoreSteph & Jess do the Chicken Dance and other weekend adventures in Seva
Tomorrow begins week 2 in Ghana. We returned today from our weekend visit to Seva, the village that I lived in for 15 weeks in 2007. It was wonderful and strange and a bit sad to be back in Seva. I spent many hours there feeling isolated from friends and family, and this time I…
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