After completing a very successful first annual set of Girls Leadership Camps in the Northern Region of Ghana in 2009, the PCV's involved helped the Ministry of Education (MOE) clean up the SSS classrooms and dorms we had borrowed. We loaded the...
This is a photo of me with some of my helpers who, along with their parents and the village elders, helped me plant over 600 Moringa seedlings all over Kpendua in the rainy season of 2009.
A couple months after assisting the Queen Mother and Traditional Birthing Attendant in helping my best friend Zhilia give birth to her daughter Zulayha, I took this photo of bathtime in their compound right before dinner.
Photo taken in Kpendua,...
It was just another day in Kpendua, another lunch in my best friend's compound with his family. One of the neighboring children walked in to greet us all, carrying her younger sister on her back as usual
This photo was taken in 2008 in Kpendua,...
Near the completion of my service, I was lucky to attend the funeral of the chief of Kpendua, the village in which I served in the Northern Region of Ghana. It took 5 years for the village to raise enough money to properly commemorate his death,...
This is a photo I took March 15, 2009. It is a photo of a group of women potters in Sibrototi, Togo who met once a week under the mango tree to do a village savings a loan program. I taught health lessons during these meetings and for one of the...