Another interesting area of work I am involved in is supporting people living with HIV and AIDS. HIV and AIDS is still a big issue in Ghana, the prevalence rates are lower than many other West African countries but it is still a crisis here and has numerous negative effects on individuals, families, communities and society. Many of the World Vision sponsored children in this district will be affected in some way, they may know a family member or relative who is...

A few weeks ago I was asked to support my colleague to deliver some training on Child Protection, a key element of their programme seeing as children are at the centre of everything World Vision does. The training was suggested to me months back, but because of the huge workload of the Sponsorship Officer, it has been postponed a number of times, until the staff realised that it was actually getting to the point where we couldn't delay any longer; the audi...

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...