AN AFRICAN SUMMER…

It’s September!  Fall is on its way in and summer is just about over. And it was a great summer!  Our team of twenty (from the U.S.) recently returned from our August journey to Ghana, West Africa.  We held our 3rd annual Wechiau Girls Conference in the upper west region of the country. It’s a very remote area – some places just received electricity last year, although very many villages still don’t have any electricity at all. The nearest major city, Kumasi, is about 8 hours away… and the journey is not an easy one to drive. (In 2009, can you believe there are still places in the world without some of the basic things we take for granted here in the U.S.? We have a lot of work to do.)

We are currently preparing for our August 2009 Journey to Ghana.  Our schedule includes our third annual Wechiau Girls Conference as well as checking on the building of our school. 

For the conference, we are expecting 350 girls from over 19 different villages in some of the remotest parts of Ghana, West Africa.  For five days, we will be teaching them about Literacy, Health, Music, Arts & Crafts, Dance and Physical Education.  In this area, the children only get one meal a day.  During our conference, we feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner.  The girls’ excitement is contagious during the entire conference, but especially when they are eating.