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 […]
By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator In the Northern Region of Ghana, Halloween isn’t so much not celebrated as not heard of. The closest I got to celebrating was giving […]
By Cleo S. Blacke Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator It is 2016. In most parts of the world, people are speaking out more and more about equality and women are standing […]
By Alhassan Baako Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Two Simultaneous Systems of Government: Constitutional and Chieftaincy The women who have been accused of witchcraft in northern Ghana are all but powerless. They find […]
By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Coordinator I can’t count the number of marriage proposals I’ve received since moving to Ghana. I’ve also had a number of people ask me to […]
By George Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer While it’s one of the phrases of the day, throughout my life I never thought that white privilege applied to me. Dad finished the 8th […]
By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer We have arrived in Ghana for our year of volunteer work with the Humanist Service Corps. Leading up to my departure I researched West […]
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 […]
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was nervous about teaching in Macau. Obviously I was nervous about moving halfway across the world by myself, but more than that, I was […]
By Cleo Blacke Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I came to the Northern Region of Ghana with a group of Americans to volunteer for the Humanist Service Corps. Our program is unique […]
