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 meeting to discuss details on our debrief in Accra and the departure of the UKV’s as they leave for London on Monday.
On Tuesday, some team members took a trip to the Adaklu mountains for a hike. The team were able to complete the mountain hike in under 4 hours. Upon return, the team working with the Amuzudeve womens groundnut team went to the village to distribute dues cards to members of the group. Later in the evening, some volunteers join the anfoe basic school in their carols night.
On Wednesday morning, the team had a breakfast meeting with the district co-ordinating director of the district assembly, where we discuss issues and challenges concerned with the project and the partnership with the district assembly. The maize team also had a final meeting with the anfoe group and the project co-ordinator to finalise issues with the group and the Kente team also met with their group to finalise issues.
In the evening, we had the Ada awards to award volunteers for their individual contributions to the team. We enjoyed some sausage and vegetable khebab with some ‘sobolo’ juice at the all formal event. The team leaders organised a love hearts activity, giving each team member a small booklet, designed for each other team member to complete with comments and experiences which they have shared with the person.
On Thursday, we had our final ‘My Culture Day’ presentation from kitt, who spoke about her hometown, Milton Keynes. The Vegetable team went to waya to meet with their group and say good bye to them. The media team also worked on the debrief presentation video.
On Friday, the media team continued working on the debrief videos, whereas some volunteers were cleaning their host homes, packing and saying goodbye to their host families. The team met at 2:00 pm to complete the water sachet football net and clean up the blue house.
On Saturday morning, the bus for departure arrived very early and volunteers said their goodbye’s and departed our placement for accra at 9:00 am. We arrived at the hotel in accra at 3pm, where we checked in to our individual rooms and rested.
On Sunday, which is the debrief day, Volunteers also had to share their summarised personal case study with the team. We delivered presentations for our various projects and as usual the Adaklu waya livelihood project video presentation was obviously the best. Awards were given to star volunteers and best counterpart pairs of each project. Rahim took the Star volunteer award, with Sara and Christabel taking the best counterpart pair award of the Adaklu waya livelihood project.
On Monday, some volunteers went to the art centre to get some stuffs and at 3pm all volunteers went to the airport to see off the UKV’s. It was so sad saying goodbye to each other and the tears could not be stopped from flowing.
Overall this project has been a life changing experience for every single experience. We have begun a relation that will last forever. It has been great volunteering on this project.
Chloe and Rahim
