Posted to journeytosolidarity.org by Jay D. Breitlow. Photos courtesy of the author.
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 [...]
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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The Haitian proverb ‘Beyond Mountains there are Mountains’ is a fitting description for where we sit today with J2S. My bags are packed and I am ready to take off for Africa to when I get a message from my friend Sasha in Madagascar: ‘Civil Unrest, didn’t think it was possible until today’.
Several conversations later and many hours spent [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
When we look at the people we are serving, it is important to understand the characteristics of Poverty. The folks at Enterprise Development International do a great job on defining poverty here where they define 6 keys: 1)Material Poverty 2) Physical Weakness 3) Isolation 4) Vulnerability 5) Powerlessness 6) Spiritual Poverty.
We probably each have [...]
Making data driven decisions is essential to the success of J2S. What good is it to go to Madagascar, or anywhere for that matter, show up and want to paint someone’s kitchen when what they really need is food to eat. So to maximize the efforts of J2S we have collected data from local community [...]
To quote Dave Barry “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings”
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So when I lived in Virginia as a Nuclear Engineer I would have [...]
