Echoing Hills

After spending two days at the New Horizon School we went with Erik to another type of school for people with disabilities. This was not just a day school like the New Horizon School; it was a residential church based school. At Echoing Hills we met several of the students. They were teenagers or adults with a variety of cognitive and physical disabilities. They also had several people working around the campus that were deaf or blind. One woman we met was deaf and making one of the local dishes for lunch. She allowed us to take her picture. Echoing Hills was a very peaceful change from the city. It was located next to the village that Erik and Felicia lived in. They had so much wide open space. It was a shame that more people couldn’t take advantage of the facility. They had a clinic where doctors came once a year to see the villagers. They had a warehouse of wheelchairs to be donated throughout Ghana. The wheelchair man, called George (he was I think the seventh George we’d met on the trip), explained that they were donated from the states, he fixed them up and every few months trucks would come load up the wheelchairs and make a trip to a village, or somewhere in Accra to donate the chairs. He said that anyone that needed a wheelchair could come there and get one. This made us wonder, why then were there so many disabled people on the streets of Accra on wheel boards rather than in wheelchairs. The students were very friendly and showed us a dance that they liked to do in their outdoor classroom.