Archive for August 2nd, 2007

I, Jackie, would like to turn over the reigns of this blog to Steve for the day. He is the winner of the Raise Money Right chocolate selling contest. He and his mom are on the delegation and have been great members of the team. Steve’s mom is a nurse and [...]

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Lots of our time on this trip is spent in 4WD vehicles traveling from place to place, and we are not even reaching the remotest areas of Ghana where CRS works. The fact is, with the exception of cold showers and occasional electricity outages we are having a rather easy trip, all things considered. Each [...]

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Our 10 person delegation left Accra by plane and arrived in Tamale, where our first stop was Nyohini Orphanage, a beneficiary of the CRS Safety Net program. In Ghana, where nearly a third of the population lives in extreme poverty, children are sometimes abandoned or lose their parents to disease. Orphanages provide a [...]

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