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.

In seven days, we leave for Ghana, West Africa.  The final week until departure is always crucial, intense… and exciting.  Those of us who are going can’t wait to walk the West African soil again.  We miss our sisters and brothers and look forward to the reunion: their smiling faces, warm hugs, exicting stories of their adventures since the last time we were there five months ago.  We will also hear stories of their incredible need…

In case you are wondering, there are places of poverty there that are incomprhensible to our American sensibilities.  Some think we know poverty in America - but it does not compare.