"Ghana Project - Phase II - The Ghanaian Village

You only visit the main city of any country and you are going to get a distorted view of what life is really like. In my short time working here in Ghana, I have spent all my time in Accra, the capital city and the largest city. But as I mentioned in my last post, we went out into the countryside on behalf of one of my proof-of-concept clients who drills water wells for villages to give them clean water supplies. I brought my camera and had the opportunity to get some photo ops.

Water Is Important!

We take it for granted

This village used to get its water from a stream that was not sanitary and would dry up during the dry season

Then it got a hand pump...a big improvement

 But it got blocked

My client put in not just an electric powered well but a distribution system with multiple distribution points so people did not have to walk so far to get their water

Don't think this is valued?

My client Emmanuel

With another of the people I am mentoring, Mary, who is becoming a personal assistant

Scenes from throughout the village

Registering at 18 to get your government ID card...very important!

And as I have seen throughout my time in Ghana, people love to mug for the camera

The major crop here is cassava and it is processed into a product called Gari, basically, a ground-up toasted grain that gets added to other food