Trip: Volunteering in Ghana
There are [15] stories from my trip: Volunteering in Ghana
GHANA | Saturday, 20 Dec 2008 | Views [1007] | Comments [3]
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who offered donations to the Human Service Trust Orphanage. You have helped some beautiful children better their quality of life. I also ran a medical outreach programme in Abura near Cape Coast with ... Read more >
SOUTH AFRICA | Saturday, 20 Dec 2008 | Views [674]
Coming to the tail end of my adventure, I donned the safari khakis and got wild in Kruger National Park, South Africa. We spent four nights in tents under a starry South African sky, listening to baboons, lions and elephant calling to one another in ... Read more >
GHANA | Sunday, 14 Dec 2008 | Views [826]
Politics is like sport here. People roam the street clad head-to-toe in
their party colours, as if going to a football game. They cheer and
dance to campaign tunes and sit in the back of utes shouting rhetoric
through mega-phones. Politicians plaster ... Read more >
GHANA | Wednesday, 3 Dec 2008 | Views [1414] | Comments [4]
It was time to ditch work and hit the road
running for a week…
Travelling North in Ghana is
an epic trip due to poorly maintained roads and equally dodgy vehicles. But the
4am bus rides, the hours of sitting with live chickens ... Read more >
GHANA | Wednesday, 26 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
Some of the amazing faces I've come across on my travels
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GHANA | Friday, 7 Nov 2008 | Views [4251] | Comments [6]
Think of a diet packed with enough carbohydrates to give posh spice a severe heart attack. That is what my stomach
encounters daily in Ghana … White rice (starch), potatoes (starch), yam (starch), plantain
(starch), bananas (starch), cassava (starch), ... Read more >
GHANA | Monday, 3 Nov 2008 | Views [1816] | Comments [3]
The Volta region is only a stone’s throw away from Accra but the lush,
dense greenery is a telltale sign that you’re out of the concrete jungle.
Weekends are when we stretch out our legs
and relax. Or, more likely, cram our legs into ... Read more >
GHANA | Tuesday, 21 Oct 2008 | Views [914] | Comments [2]
After only two weeks of fast-paced life in Accra , I paid a
visit to my beloved Cape . It was lovely to be back ‘home.’ The first person I saw when I
descended my taxi was a friend from the radio station and I was greeted with a
big hug. The ... Read more >
GHANA | Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 | Views [940] | Comments [3]
As much as presenting the news live stirs the adrenalin, getting out of the studio makes for the most interesting experiences. Last week I went with a journo to investigate an illegal gold mining operation upstream from a water treatment plant. The ... Read more >
GHANA | Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 | Views [1630] | Comments [2]
In Ghana, radio stations don't sit atop the city's tallest building... Instead, I trudge every morning up Cape Coast's tallest mountain. Yes FM is a friendly place. Presenters take photos of themselves or even answer their mobiles during their programs.... Read more >
GHANA | Wednesday, 10 Sep 2008 | Views [933] | Comments [3]
It's impossible to go one day without seeing something to inspire. Sadly, often these images go un-captured in abidance with cultural sensitivity. I have only words in my artistic artillery... A woman carries a crate of six live chickens on her head ... Read more >
GHANA | Monday, 1 Sep 2008 | Views [840] | Comments [2]
After a month in Ghana, I feel like this is home. I am speaking as much Fante as possible because it earns you so much respect. I greet people in the street in Fante and they are always surprised by the white girl speaking their language. Some ladies ... Read more >
GHANA | Friday, 22 Aug 2008 | Views [1008] | Comments [4]
Ghanaian children are beautiful. They holler at you wherever you go, be it to giggle at the silly white person, touch your milky skin or just so you'll wave back. Last week I was swarmed by a dozen children who desperately wanted their photo taken. Upon ... Read more >
GHANA | Wednesday, 13 Aug 2008 | Views [976] | Comments [4]
Ghana is unlike any place I've ever known so here's a little observation that might help paint the scene... I wake up when the scorching sun filters through my open Cape Coast window. Untangling myself from the mosquito net, i wander across the concrete ... Read more >
GHANA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [724] | Comments [1]
It's Sunday night. I'm wearily sitting in front of the television after ample coffee and cake. I feel lazy, all cosy in a dressing gown with a laptop poised on my lap... Usually, I would take this comfort for granted but in the lead up to a simpler ... Read more >
