Finding my Philosophy of Service
By Jude Lane Humanist Service Corps Volunteer For most of my life I knew I wanted to help others, and what that has meant to me changed drastically over time. I went […]
Tag Archives: Ghana
Conversations in Ghana About Race in America
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 […]
An Update on the Kukuo Health Screening Project
By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In a piece a while back, I had talked at length about a health screening and medical records project being undertaken in Kukuo by […]
On Departure
Can I come back home? Will you receive me if I do? Will all I collected make up for the time I missed with you? As the time for departure […]
Mental Healthcare Access, Stigma, and Discrimination
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 […]
What Alternative is There? Hope and Resiliency in Kukuo Village
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 […]
Announcing next year’s team and program developments!
By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator When I first began planning for the launch of the Humanist Service Corps, I assumed that I would need to spend at […]
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground: Imagining a Humanist Approach to Prayer
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground”- Rumi To some extent I envy religious people. A careful reading of a Braver […]
Cultural Sensitivity vs. Personal Responsibility
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 […]
Life as a Ghanaian Foreigner in Ghana
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 […]
Applied Sentience 