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Going from Canada to Ghana: August 2007
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Going from Canada to Ghana. Wednesday, August 29, 2007. On my second day at work, I showed up, was ushered onto the back of a motorbike and promptly sent off into the bush. Piloting the motorbike was Janet, a wonderfully kindhearted mother and extension agent/WIAD (Women In Agricultural Development) officer, and taking the lead in another motorbike was Zack, the district's extension officer. I was standing under a tree full of ripe mangoes! Was it that food from the morning? Was it the mango I ate? By th...
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Going from Canada to Ghana: Savanishing
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Going from Canada to Ghana. Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Their huge forms lumber in the dust, pacing idly. The ground murmurs and softly trembles beneath their incredible mass. Monoliths, they dominate the landscape. Suddenly excited and impatient, one pulls forward from the herd and bellows a shrill blast. Ears ringing, the ground seems to whimper in response. Growling like thunder, the bus begins to lumber through the station. The people really seem to rely on the seasonal rains. This is a major probl...
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Going from Canada to Ghana: July 2007
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Going from Canada to Ghana. Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Their huge forms lumber in the dust, pacing idly. The ground murmurs and softly trembles beneath their incredible mass. Monoliths, they dominate the landscape. Suddenly excited and impatient, one pulls forward from the herd and bellows a shrill blast. Ears ringing, the ground seems to whimper in response. Growling like thunder, the bus begins to lumber through the station. Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Roused by the gentle rays of sunshine smeared on my fac...
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Going from Canada to Ghana: April 2007
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Going from Canada to Ghana. Monday, April 23, 2007. Who is this guy? I'm a 19 year old second year. Engineering student from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. I'll be spending a summer in Northern Ghana working with the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), a volunteer placement which was organized through. Canada. This trip is a way for me to begin to understand why there seems to be so much. I think I have many preconceptions about what poverty is, and what it is not. For example,. To le...
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Going from Canada to Ghana: June 2007
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Going from Canada to Ghana. Sunday, June 10, 2007. After getting his contact information from Gwen Henderson, an EWB Long Term Overseas Volunteer (LTOV) based in Tamale, I arranged a meeting with Francis Azamza. Nobody pounds like Amina pounds. A few of the children. Emmanuel hits the books. Michael explains how to brood a fowl. Friday, June 8, 2007. But funerals in Ghana are relatively complex and diverse ordeals, and are not always such a performance. Sometimes, the body may wait many weeks at a mo...
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Going from Canada to Ghana
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Going from Canada to Ghana. Wednesday, August 29, 2007. On my second day at work, I showed up, was ushered onto the back of a motorbike and promptly sent off into the bush. Piloting the motorbike was Janet, a wonderfully kindhearted mother and extension agent/WIAD (Women In Agricultural Development) officer, and taking the lead in another motorbike was Zack, the district's extension officer. I was standing under a tree full of ripe mangoes! Was it that food from the morning? Was it the mango I ate? By th...