We spent the day painting a new school in a rural area just outside of Accra. The school has been under construction for the past year and a half. Most of the work to build the school has been done or paid for by VCU students. VCU students cleared the ground for the school, dug the foundations and poured cement. We are building upon their work in what we are doing for the school. We worked very hard and will likely sleep hard tonight.
After painting for about five hours we went to a historical site and museum (hot sweaty and covered in paint but oh well) where we learned about Ghanaian history. It struck me as we stood in the beautiful monument that just outside the wall were hundreds of venders, dirty and hot.
The children that walk in the streets begging for money pulled at our heart strings. One little girl in particular made an impression on a classmate. The girl kept saying “Please sister, I’m hungry.” We came on this trip because we want to help the children so saying “no” to them is really hard. These children remind me of children I have seen in the Middle East that would say “one dollar, please friend, one dollar”. We can send them away but they make you wish that they had somewhere else to go like school. Maybe some of the children we’ve seen in the streets will get to go to the school we helped paint today.
Today I took pictures around Accra and on our way to the village. Here are a couple.
After painting for about five hours we went to a historical site and museum (hot sweaty and covered in paint but oh well) where we learned about Ghanaian history. It struck me as we stood in the beautiful monument that just outside the wall were hundreds of venders, dirty and hot.
The children that walk in the streets begging for money pulled at our heart strings. One little girl in particular made an impression on a classmate. The girl kept saying “Please sister, I’m hungry.” We came on this trip because we want to help the children so saying “no” to them is really hard. These children remind me of children I have seen in the Middle East that would say “one dollar, please friend, one dollar”. We can send them away but they make you wish that they had somewhere else to go like school. Maybe some of the children we’ve seen in the streets will get to go to the school we helped paint today.
Today I took pictures around Accra and on our way to the village. Here are a couple.
The traffic is crazy... people walk between the cars selling various wares and apparently the lane dividing lines are just suggestions.
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