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Category Archives: Memoirs & Journeys

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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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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Tempting Thighs

December 1, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Cleo S. Blacke Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator I was on an overnight bus heading to Bimbilla from Accra with the first Humanist Service Corps team. As usual in Ghana, […]

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My Journey to the Humanist Service Corps

November 15, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer My Ghanaian teammate killed a spitting cobra on his farm today. He used only a stick. I don’t normally condone killing snakes in the […]

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Life’s Challenges and Why They’re Important

November 2, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In the 1996 when electricity was scarce in northern Ghana and only two years old in my hometown (Bole), lanterns were the major source of […]

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Dogs, Gods, and Chickens

October 5, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Jude Lane Humanist Service Corps Volunteer We have officially been involved with this year’s HSC team for three months. I have learned so much about my new country of residence, but […]

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My Home Away From Home

August 24, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Cleo S. Blacke Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator Growing up, home was two rooms shared with my mother and four siblings in a compound house we shared with five other […]

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Mental Healthcare Access, Stigma, and Discrimination

June 21, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I’m bipolar. There’s a lot of debate about whether to say “I am bipolar” or “I have bipolar disorder”, but the way I perceive the […]

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What Alternative is There? Hope and Resiliency in Kukuo Village

June 7, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 3 Comments

By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer The people in my life who know me have always told me that resiliency is among my strongest traits.  In my family, we refer […]

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Avocados and Autism

April 29, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 3 Comments

By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer April is Autism Acceptance/Autism Awareness Month. As such, I felt it appropriate to write about my life as an autistic* woman who was diagnosed […]

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