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This week, I closed the Outreach clinic in Accra early, so that I could make the arduous and, I later found out, often perilous journey north to the city of Kumasi. Before I begin, I must introduce Dr. Robert Champagne. Dr. Robert is from [...]
Posted to journeytosolidarity.org by Jay Breitlow. Photos courtesy of the Author.
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 [...]
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Harriet is a 19-year-old woman who walks through the room and immediately demands your attention. I wish I could tell you that it was her beaming personality or her ‘I can stop traffic’ good looks that turns heads. Instead, Harriet draws stares and strange looks because [...]
Sure a good nights sleep will kill the worst of colds, but to get to that point she needed to be first eating and eliminating waste more efficiently. I am confident that the atlas adjustment relieved the sympathetic nervous system, which in turn allowed for the rest and relation of the parasympathetics to take over. [...]
Continue reading about A story about a girl (clinically speaking)
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 [...]
Continue reading about Why Ghana is wonderful, and why your help counts
When I moved to Nebraska and looked at the map I was quick to notice that Colorado and all it’s grandeur is the next door neighbor, thus this weekend I took advantage of a short 11 hour drive and went hiking with two friends near Aspen. While in the mountains I felt at home, peaceful, [...]
The phrase ‘practice makes perfect’ is a phrase we have probably all heard at some point in our lives and at some point something most people have attempted to initiate. I remember practicing jump shots every night in high school to try and make the varsity basketball team. As we grow older though [...]
Charles Darwin was an English scientist from the mid-late 1800s who demonstrated that as time passes, life evolves. As species evolve we are left with the diversity of animals and plants that exist as we know it today and we can see this when we go to the zoo or walk through the woods. [...]
When we talk about breaking the cycle of poverty we have to look at breaking it for the long term. Showing up for one month at a time every now and then would be like handing a village a toothbrush and a bottle of toothpaste and saying ‘enjoy a lifetime of minty fresh [...]
