GO TEAM GB!!!! What an amazing few days!!!!! I am so proud of the athletes in team GB!!! Especially Jessica Ennis, WOW. Missing the Olympics madness is definitely the theme of the week. It's been a super busy one, so I've had plenty of things to take my mind off it, but really the main thing zapping up my attention is the constant scrounge for snippets of the amazing Olympic moments, and the futile search for somewhere where I can actually SEE some of what's...

The President of Ghana has died. The 'King of Peace' and a very well respected leader of the country has passed away. I found out this afternoon in a little shack of a shop that my friend Angela keeps as a way of making a living. I went to visit her after work and knew something was not quite right by the way she was not her bubbling, smiley, hugging and dragging me into her shop self. The shack shop next door had attached some speakers to their radio and wer...

A quick round-up of the last couple of weeks... Headlines: Nasara swims for bathroom after heavy rain causes floods to hallway and kitchen Large number of houses reported as simply 'disappeared' Attack of the ants: Nasara fights back! New fruit in town tempts Nasara's delight, as old flame tomatoes packs up and leaves Preparations begin and tensions are high in the run up to the Watermelon Olympics Volunteer mutiny rocks the boat at two day meeting Nasara...

We arrived at the last of our Child Rights Sensitizations (bottom still hurting from the insane moto-journey, I'm not sure when I'll be able to sit down again!) to discover that here there are eight communities, spread out over huge kilometres of land, and not one single school. Not one. We are here to talk about the child's right to education, so it's utterly ironic- how are we supposed to encourage parents to send their children to school, when there are no s...

It may have come almost a month late but it was absolutely worth the wait! This week Bawku West schools celebrated the Day of the African Child. The official date is the 16th June, which has been set on the world calendar to commemorate the young school children in South Africa who rose up and marched to protest for their right to education. Sadly many of them were killed on that day, and so it is an important day in remembrance of the sad sacrifice they made i...