This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Amanda Herring. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was to build two 10-stall latrines in a fishing village on the coast of Ghana. Amanda reports: After they began digging the pits for the latrines, the energy and […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Katie Kirouac. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to build soak-away pits at twenty households in the Gushie community. Katie reports: During the past week, we completed the soak-away pit project in Gushie, N/R, Ghana. Through […]
Location Gushie, Northern Region, Ghana Community Description Gushie is a small farming village in the Northern Region of Ghana, approximately 50 km north of Tamale, the regional capital. Gushie has a population of just under 1,000 people and does not have electricity. The village is mostly comprised of people from the Dagomba and Fulani tribes, […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Alan Ruge. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The overall project was the construction of a Kindergarten/Nursery School in KwakuSae, a community in the West Akim District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. The involvement of Water Charity was […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Andrew Head. To read about the beginning of this project, CLICK HERE. The project was developed to prevent malaria by reducing mosquito populations and removing breeding grounds through soak-away pit construction. Soak-away pits are simple to build and cost-effective, as the materials are […]
This is a project to build soak-away pits in the village of Tali, in the Northern Region of Ghana. Tali, with a population of about 2,000, is located about an hour west of Tamale on the Tamale-Daboya Road. The people are of the Dagomba tribe and they speak Dagbani. Soak-away pits can play a significant […]
To read about the start of this project, CLICK HERE. Our participation in this project is to fund the rain gutters around the building, which will feed a water storage tank. Although this portion of the project comes later in the construction, we will provide progress reports as the work progresses. The old school for […]
Our involvement in this project is part of a larger endeavor to build a Kindergarten/Nursery School in KwakuSae, a community of farmers in the West Akim District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. The project is coordinated by Peace Corps Volunteer W. Ruge. The planned school project will be of concrete and block, with three […]
This is a project to build two 10-stall latrines in a fishing village on the coast of Ghana. The approximately 1,000 residents of the community depend solely on fishing and coconut farming for their livelihood. They live, work and play in an extremely unsanitary environment, with a resulting high incidence of intestinal disease. Currently the […]
Location This project is being implemented in a rural farming community in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Community Description The main occupation of the community is farming. Because of the short rainy season, there are severe problems of food shortage and malnutrition, resulting in high infant mortality. Project Description This project, administered by the […]