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Give Me Your Camera: Understanding Gift Giving in Ghana

February 3, 2017by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Administrator One of the interactions with people in Ghana that I find difficult is when people—strangers—ask me to give them things. It’s quite common. In […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Happy New Year, Ghana!

February 1, 2017by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Jude Lane Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Many people all around the world make New Year’s resolutions. I have never been one to make any that I actually kept, but this tradition […]

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Plight of the Village Child in Education

January 24, 2017by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

By Alhassan Baako Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In my opinion, life without formal education is meaningless. Growing up as a child, my immediate guidance counselors were my parents and the various classroom […]

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A Most Unlikely Story

December 30, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer The road to Bolni is as bad a road as I’ve been on in Ghana. It takes thirty minutes to reach the village once […]

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Realizing Gender (In)Equality

December 21, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator I grew up surrounded by strong women. Ironically, this, at least in part, is the reason I was so anti-feminist into my 20s. I […]

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A Community with More Women than Men Farmers

December 13, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I have always imagined a society with equal gender populations engaged in agriculture or maybe more females engaged in agriculture than males. August 17, 2016 […]

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Suicide Perspectives of the Dominant Tribes in Northern Ghana

December 6, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Alhassan Baako Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Content warning: Post contains detailed descriptions of suicide methods and shaming. In my previous posts I’ve discussed how witchcraft beliefs exist in Ghana and how […]

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