This past August 2008, the African Initiative Mission organization returned back to Ghana, West Africa for our Second Annual Wechiau Girls Conference. 

Approximately 312 girls from 19 different surrounding villages turned out for the 5 day event.  Wechiau is one of the most isolated village regions, where the nearest town is over one our away by car and the nearest major city is over eight hours away.  To make things worse, the roads are not in good condition.  In fact, this area is so isolated that electricity just arrived in early this year.

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