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Tag Archives: Humanist Service Corps

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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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

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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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

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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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

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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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

A Reflection on Faith from an Unbeliever: Assemblies of God in the US & Northern Ghana

November 23, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Jude Lane Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was raised in the Assemblies of God church a denomination begun in my home state of Arkansas. I even went to an Assemblies of […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Religion & Secularism

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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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Where Witchcraft Trials Still Happen

November 8, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

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 […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

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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