Well, we have one week to go and every one is making plans for how to finish and leave behind something sustainable. Variously the projects include stroke education for nurses, an OHS plan, and information on exercise, nutrition, feeding babies with cerebral palsy and how to run a playgroup. The host families are by and large lovely caring people who are completely bemused by how little we all eat (more than at home), how late we come home (6.00pm) and our stra...

All is going well, on the weekend 8 of us went to Kumasi, about 5 hours away, and 2 adventurers, Sally and Leah, made it all the way to Mole National Park which is an extra 12 hours on a lumpy bumpy bus. Kumasi is a big city with all that entails- noise, pollution, huge markets, tourist traps, spivs, and a variety of non-Ghanian food (hooray). This week we are planning how we will hand over and what we will leave that will be sustainable into the future. All of...

This entry has a little bit about our clinical work to accompany the photos we have uploaded. WE have also added some photos to the week 1 album. We are divided into three groups, each consisting of a physio, a speech path and an OT. Each group is in a different town and are doing very different health work. For example: Leah, Sally and Scarlet are in Swedru and are working with kids with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities. Paula, Donna and C...

Most of us have settled into Ghanian life, which is get up well before sunrise, eat your breakfast on your own, have a cold shower or bucket bath and then be immediately sweaty and then be at the hospital at around 7.30am for a working day which finishes at 3pm at the latest. Then a heavy lunch followed by a heavy dinner (both eaten solo), some mad mexican or nigerian soap opera on the tv, another bucket bath and then tucked in bed by 8.30pm. Ghanians live life...

Well we finally found an internet cafe and some time to upload some photos. Its hard to know where to start, and you must know this is only one perspective but things seem to be going well. We had an uneventful but hideously long 33 hour trip from Sydney to Accra so we arrived tired and smelly but were met by the charming and friendly staff from SYTO (our host organisation). The next few days were spent in orientation and included dancing, cooking, drumming an...