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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: October 2008
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Sunday, October 5, 2008. Family Home Evening and Table Climbing. My host mother, Lydia, likes to take charge of Family Home Evening lessons. One FHE, she asked us all what we heard in church. My little sister Adwoa talked a bit about Sunday School. Lydia said, "Nice try." Then Essie said what she heard in sacrament. Lydia said, "Nice try." I didn’t want a 'nice try', so I gave a slightly lengthy monologue and seemed to pass the test. Though they couldn't agree on ...
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: August 2008
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Ga West schools: Katapor, Akatoshi, and Ayawasu. Akatoshi: This school was nuts! Some kids were jumping from one tree to another- proof that playing on the merry-go-round would be the safest thing the kids would do all day. We asked the kids how many of them had homework the night before, and even the whole week, and only a few had been assigned homework—all in math. So I suppose there is one teacher that assigns homework anyway. 8221; Th...
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: Family Home Evening and Table Climbing
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Sunday, October 5, 2008. Family Home Evening and Table Climbing. My host mother, Lydia, likes to take charge of Family Home Evening lessons. One FHE, she asked us all what we heard in church. My little sister Adwoa talked a bit about Sunday School. Lydia said, "Nice try." Then Essie said what she heard in sacrament. Lydia said, "Nice try." I didn’t want a 'nice try', so I gave a slightly lengthy monologue and seemed to pass the test. Though they couldn't agree on ...
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: First visit to Katapor and Nii Otto Kwame Schools
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Sunday, October 5, 2008. First visit to Katapor and Nii Otto Kwame Schools. Let's rewind to the initial school visits. Luckily, Jeff (MPA study abroad professor) and Catherine (professor and MPA administrator) were able to make one for us. Even when the ministry told the people to go away, they still waited! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Slums of Klong Toey, Thailand. Family Home Evening and Table Climbing. With God All Things Are Possible Beauty Saloon.
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: Orphanages
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Sunday, October 5, 2008. During the four days the MPA study abroad students worked with us, we went with them to the Osu orphanage. It was a very different experience than going to the schools. The kids were completely starved for both attention and touch. I loved picking them up and giving them stickers, and I loved swinging on the swings with them and going down the slides. Most couldn't speak English so it was hard to communicate with them. He exclaimed, "Yes!
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: The Worrrrrrld Mahp!
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Thursday, January 29, 2009. I traveled back to Ghana in November with a huge world map rolled up in a plastic tube sticking several feet out of the top of my backpack. Matthew Colling (who was at the time performing a social impact analysis) and I went to the rural school of Koni Kablu, where one of the merry-go-rounds is. We brought the map to give to the school, and it was the first time they had ever seen one! We take so much for granted! Me: The ocean is made ...
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: A Day at the Beach
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Thursday, February 12, 2009. A Day at the Beach. The film crew wanted some entertainment/scenic ocean scenes to film, so Solomon took us all to a public beach near Accra. This was nothing like Kokorobite or Busewa. This was an Accra beach with a crowded village near the shore. Mac, oops. Macyril. Your power of description is attractive, Sarah. The result: a gallery worth millions. May 13, 2009 at 7:48 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Day at the Beach.
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: Creating the Documentary!
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Thursday, February 12, 2009. My November trip was to take the BYU film crew to make the documentary. It was a lot of fun. We installed a merry-go-round at the rural school of Katapor, and visited the four other rural public schools (leaving Essam out of the picture because of how unpredictably rainy it was and how Essam was three hours away). So the documentary seemed to be successful! It is supposed to air mid-March, 2009 on BYU TV. Stay tuned! Operation Love In ...
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana: February 2009
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The Birth of Empower Playgrounds, Ghana. Thursday, February 12, 2009. My November trip was to take the BYU film crew to make the documentary. It was a lot of fun. We installed a merry-go-round at the rural school of Katapor, and visited the four other rural public schools (leaving Essam out of the picture because of how unpredictably rainy it was and how Essam was three hours away). So the documentary seemed to be successful! It is supposed to air mid-March, 2009 on BYU TV. Stay tuned! Grandpa had fallen...
