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Irish in Ghana
http://www.irishinghana.blogspot.com
28 year old Irish man blogs on his preparations for and experiences of volunteering in Ghana.
- Author: Paddy in Poland
- Listed in: Volunteering Activism
- Tags: education activism Ireland volunteering ghana kumasi
Recent Posts
Battling malaria in Burkina Faso
The female anopheles mosquitoPlasmodium Falciparum - the most common and deadly malarial parasite The French philosopher Marcel Proust wisely said, "To kindness and to knowledge we make promises only. Pain we obey". And so it is when malaria comes kn...
From Niger to Burkina Faso
Our 3 days in Niamey were really great and everybody we met, apart from one asshole guide, were extremely helpful and friendly. We took the bus journey from Niamey with SNTV/STMB company to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. A 10 hour trip in ...
Niger - safe to visit?
La Grande Mosque, NiameyIt doesn't inspire confidence to visit a country where you've just read that a foreign tourist has been executed. Edwin Dyer, a British citizen, was supposedly captured by Tuareg rebels in January this year near the border wit...
Quelle heure est-il?
Indeed, what time is it? We certainly didn't have a clue about the answer to that question when we arrived to find our bus had already departed from Parakou to Cotonou. Unfortunately, we were not aware of the time change when we entered Benin. I had ...
Togo - Photo Essay from West Africa
Munching on a corn cob in a pirogue on the lake near the former colonial capital of Aneho, where the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared 24 years ago. In 1985 locals claimed to have seen the Vigin Mary. This inspired Pope John Paul II's visit a few year...
La Visa Touristique Entente - Cheap Travel in West Africa
La visa touristique entente - I've erased my passport number for security reasonsAn ex-Peace corps volunteer just emailed an enquiry about the 5 country visa for Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire or La Visa Touristique Entente...
