Ghana Trip Four - Storming The Barriers

Three days into Trip Number 4 and significant accomplishments have been achieved. Maybe using the word accomplishments is a bit too strong because it implies that we have done things of our sole accord. It might be better to say significant obstacles to moving forward have been overcome.

As it is late and I am sleepy, I will just cover them in brief.

• First, our host Rotary Club...the club that is critical to the success of our Global Grant request...in a meeting on Thursday expressed their unqualified support for the project. They indicated they would be submitting the proposal shorty. Very exciting and humbling.

•  We did our second attempt at video recording for our promotional video. It went a thousand times better. The advice from fLO Content Marketing was invaluable. All the issues we had earlier with location and equipment were resolved. I am confident we have the raw material we need to produce the video I need.

•   I have work for the third of my six ladies in the Theodora group. There are actually two jobs, one an internet research project and the other a data input on-going job. Both of these are actually Ghana companies they will be working for. Each time I bring a first paying work to one of these women, it is so gratifying to see their faces light up as they realize they will be appreciated, respected and paid for doing this type of work. Even though this project is not supposed to officially start until December 1, the young woman was so excited that she couldn't sleep and started to do the research that very night!

And I am happy to say that I am actually following my stated objective of working much fewer hours and keeping the energy expenditure in line with my actual energy. Am also happy to report that the current apartment rented is in a way better location that has reduced substantially the amount of time in transit.