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Explore Yendi with Google Street View
If you follow our blog or our the Foundation Beyond Belief Facebook page or our Humanist Action: Ghana (HA: Ghana) Facebook page, you may have read how our team had to relocate in Ghana from Bimbilla to Yendi earlier this month. If you're wondering what Yendi is like, we have good news! This month Google…
Read MoreHumanist Action: Ghana Update Part 2
To read part one click here. Last December the 2017-2018 HA: Ghana team (volunteers and FBB leadership) mutually decided to leave Yendi. The HA: Ghana program faced some unexpected challenges in 2017 that forced several big location changes for our volunteers. While these challenges were entirely outside our control, we want to remain transparent about the…
Read MoreHumanist Action: Ghana Update
You may have noticed that the Humanist Action: Ghana (HA: Ghana) has been silent on social media in the first months of 2018. We want to bring you up to date on an eventful few months. As you may know, HA: Ghana launched in Ghana’s Northern Region in support of Songtaba, a grassroots women’s rights…
Read MoreHA: Ghana: A guide to making friends in Ghana
Throughout my life, this one question has always been at the forefront of my mind when trying something new. As I have moved from place to place, joined new teams and organizations this question would always format itself in one of two ways. How will I make friends? What if I don’t make friends? Naturally,…
Read MoreVolunteers arrive in Ghana for Humanist Action: Ghana
The new volunteers for our third Humanist Action: Ghana team have arrived in Yendi, and orientation has begun. After introductions, Baako Alhassan began their training with Dagbanli language lessons. Lukeman Domba then facilitated a session detailing the history of the Northern Region of Ghana, land demarcation of Ghana, and cross cultural differences. In this photo…
Read MoreWhat to take and what to leave when leaving Ghana
As I’m about to return to the US after another year abroad, I am reminded of my reaction to returning from my first year abroad in China. For several weeks I struggled with speaking. For one thing, having spent a year speaking broken Mandarin and English mostly with my ESL students, I struggled to find…
Read MoreWaste and Change
In Yendi, in the Northern Region of Ghana, the government and the people are still developing infrastructure including waste collection systems. Like many developing regions in the world, the waste created really has nowhere to go. It ends up in fields, on farms, and in the waterways. This blocks the rain water from moving to…
Read MoreEmpowering women in Ghana
A large part of the work our Humanist Action: Ghana (HA: Ghana) team does in Ghana is empowering women to realize their full potential as equal members of society. As in many parts of the world, there is still much work to be done. When the team lived in Bimbila, they worked closely with partner…
Read MoreUnexpected news from HA: Ghana Ghana
Trigger warning: This post contains an image and descriptions that may be upsetting to some readers. While they are not graphic, they do talk about death and make references to murder. It is with great sadness that the Humanist Action: Ghana announces its volunteers are no longer living in Bimbila. Last Thursday, a chieftaincy dispute sparked…
Read MorePlight of the village child in education
In my opinion, life without formal education is meaningless. Growing up as a child, my immediate guidance counselors were my parents and the various classroom teachers I had for my formal education. My counselors made me understand that there were several means I could adopt to develop socially, mentally, psychologically, and emotionally. I took to…
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