Holding 10kg Gold Boullion

News from Ghana

15,000 Women Register for Literacy Program
Get Immunized to Fight Polio
Stop AIDS-Keep the Promise
For Good Health Live Clean Lives
Operation Dream Clean-Ghana * Several small groups organized and started a clean up effort in Accra where 3 million of the 20 million people of Ghana live!
36 Cocoa Farmers Honoured
Kukuom Power Project* 250 million cedis electric project in the Brong Ahafo region to provide street lights and extend electricity to the agricultural secondary school there;continue commitment to get every community in the country on the national grid!
Promote Girl-Child Education*The 2005 National Best Teacher Doris Nana Marfo called on the Brong Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council to put measures and interventions as some parents in rural communities still don’t see the need to send the girl-child to school!
US to Reduce Force in Iraq (it’s about time don’t you think!)
Move to Enhance Women’s Participation in Politics*World wide the figure is about 16%, Ghana just a bit more than 10%.
Veep Commends youth for Winning Awards* Ghana’s vice president commended the youth who won 35/70m National Farmer’s Day awards.
AIDS Poses Exceptional Threat*In Africa a person is infected every 9 seconds, a child is orphaned every 14 seconds, half the children born with HIV/AIDS will die before the age of 2. The WHO failed to reach its goal that 3 million would get the necessary drugs my end of 2005. The estimate of those who did receive drugs is about half or 1.5 million
Ministry to Drill Boreholes for Farmers
Ayeeko Ghana’s Farmers - the first Thursday in December is a national holiday known as Farmer’s Day. Awards are given with the President present to farmers for their yields and environmental care. First place farmer win a truck plus a 3 bedroom house to be built for his family!

Something for your senses!

Visualize these:

Vigorous football game (soccer)blazing sun at 4 degrees latitude, players sharing shirts and sneakers, some even barefoot because there aren’t enough for the entire team.

Two days of track and field events taking place in the scorching sun. Players running bare foot or in socks on a grass field whose lanes have been hand cut, all 400 meters of it times 6 lanes.

Enthusiastic peers running across the field after each event, swarming their victors!

Lady gracefully walking on uneven clay dirt path with a sewing machine on her head.

The goat snack bar –goats nibbling on both sides of a low hedge as if seated at a diner counter. I witness this daily in the late afternoon.

A pristine, clean, white bus arriving on campus! Students pouring out of classrooms cheering and twirling their handkerchiefs in the air excited about the addition to their campus.


Imagine these sounds:

The scratching sound of palm frond brooms sweeping the walkways and paths at 4:30AM. (These brooms are the length of the fronds not attached to a broomstick so whoever is sweeping is bent at the hips doing so.)

Rhythmic singing of African Morning Doves, punctuated by rooster crows, while a high pitched crowd of smaller birds joins in.

Dull pounding of wood upon wood as homes prepare their evening fufu.

Rain arriving at long last slowly, lightly, then realizing this place is oh so thirsty and the heavens open up. Rain pelts on the tin roof so you no longer are able to hear the people sitting next to you.

A catchy television ad explaining the recent change over in malaria treatment from chloroquin to a combination of artensuate an amodiaquine…”spread the news..”

Another ad showing how to prepare the treatment for mosquito nets “The Malaria Destroyer!”