Hello, and thank you for joining us on the Journey.
My name is Jay Breitlow and I am a Chiropractor and the Founder/Director of the organization Wellness International Missions, Inc., known as Journey to Solidarity (J2S). It is important to us that you have considered joining us on the team, whether it is through a monetary [...]
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Published at www.journeytosolidarity.org by Jay Breitlow, unless noted, photos and content courtesy of the author.
A good friend of mine who lives in New Jersey phoned me a few weeks ago to talk about my experiences in Africa and to find out what on earth I’d been up to over there. After a few minutes of [...]
Updated to journeytosolidarity.org by Jay Breitlow. Photos courtesy of the author
After spending the North American winter in balmy Ghana, we learned a great deal about what it takes to operate a Non-profit Organization in Africa. At any one time, Dr. Breitlow was facing cultural boundaries, language barriers, organizational challenges and the ever-present question:“What’s next?” [...]
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The last weekend in Ghana, proved to be one of the most moving and potentially positive with respect to a future J2S location. The destination is a small town called Kpando, which is about a 4 hours drive north out of the streets of [...]
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This weekend I had the pleasure of visiting a small village north of Cape Coast. Heading westward out of the smog and traffic of Accra, one cannot help but marvel at the natural beauty of the African landscape. The dawn sun peeks though high thin [...]
Photos and story posted to journeytosolidarity.org by Jay Breitlow.
The first week in Ghana I had a very difficult time remembering all the Ghanaian names and the unique personalities that went with them. One man, Kweku, seemed different and from the start we have had a bond that allowed the two of us to get along [...]
Published to journeytosolidarity.org by Jay Kwabena Breitlow.
Driving West out of Accra is not what many would call easy, nor something for the faint of heart. To picture the scene, imagine that you are 5 years old and you have all your matchbox cars out and lined up for inspection in a nice neat line.
Remember how [...]
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Posted to Journeytosolidarity.org by Jay Breitlow 2 March 2009
Walking with the girls from the office (more than a half dozen beautiful young Ghanaina women and one pale looking lost white boy) along the blacktopped, hot road radiating heat, we stop at a small little non-descript shop that looks broken down from the outside. However once [...]
Friends and family have heard it before and I’m here to say it again, ‘Sunday is the bane of the independent travelers existence.’ Here is my story. I get in about 830 Saturday night and am greeted by three wonderful Ghanians holding a sign that reads ‘Dr Jay Breitlow’ (which is very nice touch to [...]
When Dr. Dave Campbell, who practices in Gilbert, Arizona, found out about the Journey to Solidarity, his first thought to me was ‘Jay you have to find this girl, Jennifer.’ Dave and I were friends at Palmer College and Dave was one of the student leaders chosen to attend one of the trips to Madagascar [...]
