So you dream of global understanding, connection, and communication. What better way to create this than to have students across the world write letters to one another? Ahh, the romanticized International Penpal Exchange idea: so beautiful and so grand! And yet, as those of us who have tried it often soon realize… so full of… [Read More]
Ghana Volunteering
This Site Featured in the Boston Herald, Tiger-liciously!
“Please please don’t write anything awful,” I begged the reporter over the crackly cellphone line. “I just got this new job and I really like it and I’m not trying to get thrown out!” Darren chuckled and calmly replied, “I’m a reporter. No one would talk to me any more if I violated their trust.… [Read More]
YCC Ghana’s Genius Reading Club Program
We have discussed where clothes you donate might end up, but what about the BOOKS you toss into the “Donation” bin? Me, I only had a hazy idea of how my old tomes might be used. Did they find a second life as firewood? Toilet paper? Food storage? Sometimes I worried about my cast-off literature’s… [Read More]
Help Great Ghanaian Students Visit Britain!
We need your help! In exactly two months, an amazing group of Ghanaian students and teachers from Youth Creating Change of Ghana is scheduled to leave their county for the first time. For three weeks this August, these hard-working Ghanaians will study and present in the United Kingdom for the return half of a remarkable… [Read More]
My Interview About Ghana on Amateur Traveler Podcast!
Thrilling! My interview with Chris Christensen about volunteering in Ghana has just been published on Chris’s world-famous site, Amateur Traveler Podcast! For the full interview homepage on Amateur Traveler, click here, my dear. Or, if your finger is a tad lazy, the entire interview can be played right here, by clicking this button: Amateur Traveler… [Read More]
Lucy’s Article 2: The Result of Running From School
Article #31 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project The Result of Running Away From School By Lawani Lucy, Age 13 “Run fast, Lucy!” my friend shouted. “Pass over to the other side of the road so they won’t see us!” On the fifth of March, 2010, my friend Bless and I… [Read More]
