Matador - ghana

Volunteer Abroad in Ghana Africa, Volta & Wester Region, Orphanages, schools building www.abroaderview.org

A Broader View Volunteers Corp — Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:55:24 -0500

Volunteer Abroad in Ghana: Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteering Abroad in Ghana: Ghana is located in West Africa bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Togo and the Ivory Coast.

Formerly known as the Gold Coast, Ghana won its freedom from Britain over 50 years ago, becoming the first black African...

Fifty Winks

Lorna North — Fri, 9 May 2008 07:37:39 -0500

Just as I was sitting down with a coffee outside a London restaurant in the middle of St Martin’s Place, a young man with matted hair and a gaunt face walked into a telephone box, sat down and drifted off to sleep.

“Not a bad place for...

Working as a British Journalist in Ghana

Lorna North — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:36:37 -0600

June, 2007

I bought a rusty umbrella from a street seller the other day that was probably once owned by a lolly pop lady from an English suburb. It is a beautiful piece of equipment with a plastic pink handle and protruding spokes that have the power to blind passers-by. My new...

Settling into Accra, Ghana

Lorna North — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:53:52 -0600

May 2007

As I near the one month mile stone of my stay in Ghana I thought the time was ripe to deliver the first instalment of my trip. Looking back on the build up to my departure to this slightly insane country, it’s safe to say I was a bit too...