This Monday it was the turn of Tilly and Richard to give an Active Citizenship presentation to the group. They did the session on Woman rights and Gender Equality and it turned out to be one of the best ‘ACD’ presentations so far. It got everyone’s attention hooked and we all precipitated in the discussion. We all got well educated on the views of other and the difference and similarities between our cultures.
On Tuesday the 1st of December we all met up at 9am to cut more sachets for the Goal net we are making for the local JHS School. Later in the day the Groundnut Group registered the Amuzudeve Groundnut Farmers Association with the District Assembly. The Amuzudeve group have been so committed and so very thankful to us and to Lattitude ICS that it was a real pleasure to have them finally registered and be able to know that in the future the cycles will continue working with them, helping them with training and supporting their small village community. The days Team leaders platform was fulfilled by Winnie and Sera and they deliver very well all day, keeping everyone up to date and hosting the weekly team meeting.
On Wednesday teaching continued in Anfoe Primary school and Waya JHS by some of the volunteers. The Kente Group met up and showed the volunteers how they have started really preparing for the Awareness Event we are holding on Marketing and Branding. Amy Jone and Chloe hosted our social that evening - it was a night of fun games and food! It was our Co-Ordinator Derricks birthday and the team leaders brought the group Pizza and drinks as well. Since Derrick could do be around that evening the whole team called him up and put him on loud speaker so that we could all sing the happy birthday song to him.
On Thursday the Maize Group went to Waya to have a meeting focusing on Marketing and Branding. The Maize Farmers designed a sticker and a slogan they wanted to use on the ‘Maize and Groundnut’ product at our Awareness Event and the Volunteers took a sample of their design ready to digitise and print off some labels for them. Matt Edwards held a wonderful My Culture Day presentation on Devon and the South West of England – we learnt everything from the correct order to put cream and jam a scone (cream first) and how to speak like a proper South Weston farm boy!
This Friday was National Farmers day. We were all invited to the Adaklu District Best Farmers Award Ceremony and our Team Leader Matt was given opportunity to present an award to the Best Groundnut Farmer, who happened to come from one of our livelihood groups in our home village of Anfoe. The celebrations were overwhelming with much singing, drumming and dancing which all the volunteers got up and got involved it! That afternoon Kitt and Rahim had a Kwik all about Video Blogging and Editing. They filmed part of the session and then had the volunteers turn it in to a short video – all was going well until Chloe accidently deleted the whole project file! But at least we all learnt a valuable lesion on saving work and Data storage!
We woke up at dawn on Saturday to visit the other projects in Cape Coast and Abrobiano. We set of a 4.30am and stopped at Accra Mall on the way for some tasty breakfast! We arrived at Abrobiano (a small Fishing town) at 2.30 pm and enjoyed a delicious lunch outside the ICS Lattitude library before a community tour. Later after being taken to our host homes we went to the beach for a swim! However the waves were a bit strong and it turned in to more of a sandy, salty and watery battle then a pleasant dip. That night we were treated to a chilled out bon fire under the stars.
On Sunday after breakfast at Abrobiano we left for the Kakum national park Canopy Walk. The experience was quite thrilling and existing – especially for those of us who are afraid of heights! We then moved on to Cape Coast and got to see the Football for Hope centre where the volunteers work. We had Lunch and got to go on a tour which including visiting Cape Coast Market. The hustle and bustle of a big city market was quite a shock for us after being in our sleepy village of Anfoe for so long. We then all played a pretty intense Football match (with the team sustaining a few injuries) before moving on to the office where we had our dinner. Later in the evenings we went out to the Goil Filling Station where the live band kept us dancing and dancing late into the night. 
Kitt & Shawukiya
