by gmhopeonline | Mar 5, 2020 | Before and After the Mission
On February 25 I went to Alta Vista Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, with Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope Board Member Fr. Nana Ellis for a cultural book exchange. The students at Alta Vista had been given The Ghanaian Goldilocks, about a little boy named Kofi who lives...
by gmhopeonline | Aug 12, 2017 | Reports from Ghana
It is Friday, August 4th, 2017; it is my 63rd birthday, the last day of reading camp 2017. 108 children were served, 19 teachers trained, 630 books read, and over 500 art projects were made. As I worked sorting and packing materials at the school in Trewebo in a tiny,...
by gmhopeonline | Aug 5, 2017 | Before and After the Mission, Reports from Ghana, Uncategorized
The moment we arrived most of the kids gathered around the bus to greet us with their warm smiles. The team and I hopped out of the bus and started unpacking. Once we were all unpacked and settled in for the day, the kids quickly got into their lines and had the...
by gmhopeonline | Aug 2, 2017 | Before and After the Mission, Uncategorized
Today marks the third day of Reading Camp. In just three days, much has changed but at the same time nothing much has changed. The children are more at ease. The teachers are beginning to work as a team and yet the nice, up-dated building still has chickens wandering...
by gmhopeonline | Jul 31, 2017 | Reports from Ghana
of a Child: The bus has come with the obruni! The first day of reading camp has arrived; it is time for books and fun and books and art and books and smiles. Did I mention books? (Our suitcases were filled with over 500 books) The lure is so great that even a child...
by gmhopeonline | Jul 29, 2017 | Reports from Ghana
Welcome home to Ghana! I first came to Ghana for seven weeks in 2008. There have been many trips, experiences, smiles, hugs, and times when words simply would not come. Our trip to the Volta river included all of the above. We did not do our usual cultural excursion...
by gmhopeonline | Jul 18, 2017 | Reports from Ghana
As I climbed into the back seat of our Honda CRV here in Ghana I grasped for the seatbelt. This was going to be one horrific ride. When volunteers are preparing to come for a mission, they have many fears; the food, the water, the people, the job, but when they leave...
by gmhopeonline | Jul 2, 2017 | Reports from Ghana
Bright and early, 5 am, this morning, Mercia and I climbed into the car with our tro-tro driver, Ben, and sped down the highway towards Lake Volta in the far east corner of the Eastern Region. The two-hour trip would have doubled if we had waited until 7am, so we left...
by gmhopeonline | Feb 13, 2017 | Your Help Needed
My favorite time of year is the first week of August when GMHope runs their annual a reading Camp at Akramaman in Ghana,West Africa. Seeing the adorable faces of the excited 65-100 children brings me to tears. Life is not easy in the village. We constructed two fine...
by gmhopeonline | Feb 13, 2017 | Before and After the Mission
JACKIE COATES–RETURNING MISSIONER FROM 2011 In 2011, I went to Ghana to do my first reading camp. By the end of the week I looked like I had been left in the jungle for twelve hours. My eyes were red from crying, my body was soaked with sweat, my skin had a heavy tan...
