February 2012
1 post
WFP Students New Year's Declaration →
November 2011
5 posts
Why should we care...?
Fact: There are 7 billion people in the world and roughly 1 billion of these are undernourished or suffering from starvation.
Fact: Hunger is the number one risk to health worldwide, killing more people annually than malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined.
These facts are nothing short of shocking. Here we are, living happy, healthy lives with food on our plates every single day, whilst for...
Why should we care about hunger? - top 5 reasons
Because basic nutrition is identified under Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an integral right of every human being, yet hunger rates have been slowly (but steadily) rising over the past decade;
Because there is enough food in the world to feed everyone and ensure citizens live a healthy and productive lifestyle, yet currently roughly 925 million people worldwide suffer...
The WeFeedback Initiative
WeFeedback’s mission is to enlist your help and the help of your social networks in the fight against the chronic hunger that burdens families all over the world.
How it works
It’s easy: You choose your favorite food (or the food of whatever meal you’ve decided to miss, if you’re taking part in my Online Challenge) put it into the Feedback Calculator along with the...
The World Food Programme (WFP)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) was established in 1963 with the mission to provide food aid to:
1) Save lives in refugee and other emergency situations;
2) Improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives:
3) Help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labour intensive...
Joana is Changing the World Through Social Media →
September 2011
5 posts
African restaurants in London →
Playlist of latest Ghanaian music →
Ghanaian recipes →
Day names →
August 2011
18 posts
Things I’m gonna miss...
So Emily, Kim, Matthew and I were chillin’ at Baobab yesterday around lunchtime, listing the things we’d be most likely to miss once we actually got back to civilisation… I thought I ought to jot it all down in one place, just for the hell of it, so here it goes:
WHAT I’M MOST GOING TO MISS
Ø The people;
Ø The old ladies always sitting at the same spot in Kwaprow – “ayuko?” “yayei”;
Ø The...
Good bye Ghana!
I’m sitting at the airport restaurant right now (ridiculous prices btw… 12 cedis for jolloff, wtf), sippin’ an overpriced nescafé and reflecting on the awesome couple of months I’ve just gone through… All that comes to mind right now is how fortunate I am to have had the possibility of experiencing all I experienced over the past eight weeks. So so fortunate.
On another note, I just...
“Let it be.”
Abusua Foundation →
Update
Long time no speak. A lot has happened since my last update. Read below for more info.
When we got back to Cape from our trip to the Northern Region, I had a busy couple of days at the office, as I had to finish the 2011 State of Human Rights report on the Cape Coast region and send it off to Accra; not only did I complete it before schedule (huge accomplishment for Ghana) but it was also “very,...
Language & development →
Really interesting read
Adinkra symbolism →
“Out and about… I can’t find my camera…”
Northern Region Trip
*Kumasi, Tamale, Mole National Park, Buoyem village*
(I apologise in advance for the length of this blog post… It’s not as lengthy as the Volta one but it’s pretty close! Sowwyyyy.)
Wednesday around 5pm Jen, Kim, Emily and I met up at the Tantri Lorry Station next to London Bridge at Kortokraba to head off to our trip up north. On my way there from CHRAJ I was asked to get married by half a...
“I gotta get my act together”
July 2011
26 posts
Glossary
Mariana requested that I write up a glossary… coz apparently half of what I say is absolute gibberish. Here it goes:
Obruni – white person
Obibini – black person
(note that the above two are used on a daily basis by pretty much everyone in a completely non-racist manner…)
Medaase – thank you
Akwaaba - welcome
Twi – main dialect of Ghana
Fanti – the dialect prominent in the Cape...
Volta Region trip
*Wli waterfalls, monkey-feeding, motorcycle-riding and private island-chilling… we’re living the life*
So this is what happens when you casually bond with a couple of American dudes over fishfinger talk… Jenny, Kim and I met Tim and Alex at Cape Coast Castle restaurant a few weeks back; we exchanged numbers and ended up joining forces and embarking on a trip to the Volta Region,...
Off to Volta!
Tomorrow, Kim, Jenny and I are leaving our village “at the ass-crack of dawn” for Pedu, and from Pedu we’ll be getting a trotro to Accra, where we’ll be meeting up with Tim (an American dude we met at Castle restaurant a couple of weeks ago) and two friends of his. From there, we’ll be heading off to Hohoe, where we’ll be going to a monkey sanctuary and climbing Wli, the highest waterfalls in West...
Good morning
DAY 26 - 11/07/2011
Today I decided to count the number of ‘good mornings’ I exchanged from the moment I left my house to go to work to the moment I sat down at my desk at CHRAJ… It came down to a total of 27 good mornings! People here are so so so so nice. I’m gonna have a hard time coming back to London and blending in with all the drones.
“You can’t handle me, I’m a player”, “I’ll be your coach”.”
Elmina fishing festival →
Update, Juvenile Justice Act and Grades
DAY 23 - 8/07/2011
So much - yet so little - has happened since my last (proper) blog post…
Ok so a day after we ‘moved’ to Simon’s house, Emily and Jenny got malaria and everyone was pretty much, simply put, feeling like shit. We just wanted to go home. Francis had called saying the house was fine and that the river had gone down – i.e. we could cross it relatively easily… so...
Good news
Just a short post to let everyone know that:
a) I’m back at the house and I don’t have malaria. Yet.
c) My passport didn’t get flooded.
b) My boss gave me permission to go to the Volta Region next Wednesday.
Good times. Expect an update sometime soon! xoxo
Mediation sessions
I’ve attended 6 mediation sessions until now and just wanted to provide you guys with the lowdown on them: they’re all pretty much the same story, allowing for slight variations and changes in names and faces. I’ve sat on a couple of them related to property law enforcement and issues to do with the right of workers, but the standard situation we keep getting over and over again is the...
saudades
Just a little post to let the London bredrins that I love and miss them mucho and that I wish I could come to Egypt and chill (jam:D) with them! MISS YOU LOADS.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill