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Exciting news, we have filled all our Virgin Money London Marathon spaces for 2016!
Last year we had four intrepid fundraisers complete the London Marathon on a cool and slightly damp spring day. It was a perfect day for all of the runners, but not such a great day for the supporters who were watching! Despite the gloomy…[Read more]

The final week of the second cycle of the Adaklu Waya livelihood project was quite exciting and full of goodbyes. On Monday, the team did not have much of a busy day. We had our our final one to one’s and the maize team met with their group in anfoe to discuss some important issues to pave way for the next cycle. In the evening, we had a team…[Read more]

As this was our last week in Cape-Coast, the team were very busy writing reports and finishing of any work that was left. As well as this we completed the goal-posts at Falahiya Islamic Basic School and emblazoned […]

This week is a slow week since we are almost done with our project here in Adaklu. Monday the 7th of December 2015, we journeyed back from Cape Coast to Adaklu, where we stayed at the weekend to visit our other […]

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’ […]

Hello, our names are Alex and Winifred.

I’m (Alex, 21) from a town called Muswell Hill in North London. I’m loving everyday of my experience in Ghana with Lattitude ICS. A couple months preceding my […]

Week 10 started with the busiest weekend of the cycle - we really saw Ghana! We had the Adaklu volunteers over for the night, and had a relaxing catch up of food, walks, coconuts, swimming and bonfires. I’m sure […]

This week has proven to be one of the most productive and busy weeks yet, whilst here in Abro. With only two weeks remaining, the workload has increased and the team have responded with a lot of work to show for […]

Week 10 started with extension of core program at St. Nicholas Basic School at 10am where we took the pupils through “Health, Social and Soccer components” using football as a tool which we had a good turnout. […]

Saturday

Some of the volunteers started the weekend off with yoga led by Sara at the White House. Later in the day volunteers began the project of painting the KG classroom in the MA primary school as part of […]

On Monday we had our meeting discussing our previous achievements and the aims of the week. We agreed on the next event to be a “Career Guidance” day.John as part of the infrastructure team Visited Falahiya […]

This week officially started on Tuesday due to the visit to Adaklu after MPR taking up most of the Monday. Active Citizenship Day started at 11am with Bayala and Scott delivering their presentation on the topic of […]

Monday morning saw the Adaklu team bid farewell to the rest of the ICS volunteers that they had hosted after Mid Placement Review-(MPR) but not before the ladies of the team cooked a hearty breakfast of omelette […]

Mid project review provided a welcome break for all the Abrobiano team; the warm showers and flushing toilets was a pleasant change from buckets of water and holes in the ground. The weekend was spent discussing […]

Hello, Tilly and Esenam here! Tilly is a UK volunteer and Essie a Ghanaian volunteer from the Volta region! We will be writing the blog for this week, enjoy.

The week has been very busy as we had our […]

On Monday half the team went to St Nicholas to run the extension core programme which went very successfully and the other half with the Awareness Team (Scott, Oli, Senam, Macafui and Dora) distributed posters […]

The Adaklu Livelihood Project has really begun to pick up pace in week 6 with all volunteers working very hard. A number of us started the week teaching our assigned classes in Anfoe & Waya basic schools, which will continue up to 3 times throughout the week.
The group all came together later on Monday for our weekly Active Citizenship Day which…[Read more]

Monday 26th October - Monday morning began with Meghan and Amy’s turn to host their Active Citizen Day. Their topic was all about Water. Over their presentation they discussed water sanitation, pollution, sources, […]

The weekend started with a heavy downpour which turned the small streets of Abrobiano into rivers! This is very unusual for this time of the year when rain is really scarce, and though it wasn’t so good for […]

Week 5 in Abro has flown over; we can hardly believe that our mid-project review is less than a week away! This week, in particular, has been very busy (and rather tiring!) as last weekend Cape Coast came to visit […]