Postcards from Africa

Jamestown, Ghana

Ghana, Africa

The school children of Noyaa.

2/23/2019: Yesterday I discovered the sound of a breaking heart sounds a lot like boards being ripped off a school. The school day began like any other day, but it ended in heartbreak. Without notice a Chinese contractor, with permission from the Ghanaian government, demolished the Noyaa schoolhouse. Children were in the school when the demolition began, one child was injured in the evacuation. Since 1965, the government has threatened to build a harbor at the Jamestown landing beach and with the aid of China, those threats now look like a reality. The Noyaa students who have so little, now have even less. How do you protect children from the agenda of a heartless government?

photo @catandfinch

photo @catandfinch

Richard Mullin

People might think it’s cliché to say travel changes you. But the truth is that you can’t move half way around the world and not have it change you. The people you meet, the things you see- sometimes they are heartbreaking, sometimes heartwarming, but always, they are heart changing. You learn a lot when you live in a country that is not your own. You learn the importance of taking time to greet a stranger, you learn not to take anything for granted, and you learn we need to help one another in this crazy world. But the most important lesson you learn is there are good people wherever you go. Take a look at the posts below and you will see. You will see the inevitability. And perhaps you will fall in love too.