Outreach Experience Final Days By Ivy Charles
Blog #3 -The Sankofa Center(May 18th 2015) Our two outreaches this week both went well but were very different crowds. On Tuesday we performed in a parking lot, and at first not many people [...]
Experiences in Ghana By Ivy Charles
Blog #2: The Sankofa Center (May 12th, 2015) We had another outreach on Thursday, which went really well. People seemed very interested in what we were saying, and there wasn’t such a strong [...]
Dance Practice for 1st Village Outreach By Ivy Charles
Blog #1: The Sankofa Center (Tuesday May 5th 2015) Today, after three dance practices with my dance instructor Richard, I had my first village outreach. The dances are really exciting to perform, and really high-energy. [...]
Criminal love By:Ashley Martins
Love is becoming a crime of international amnesty after attacks on gay people are increasing. Relationships between two people of the same gender is considered an illegal act and a crime in 38 of 54 [...]
Fight against HIV/AIDS By:Ashley Martins
Let us fight: the total number of Africans living with HIV or AIDS is now 25.3 million. In these countries AIDS will provoke the death of a third of 15-year-old Africans. In Ghana, approximately 1.9 [...]
Interning in Ghana By:Julia
Hello! My name is Julia and I am a new intern here at The Sankofa Center in Ghana. I am very pleased to be in such a beautiful country doing work towards educating the communities [...]
Sarah’s Social Work Intern Blog By:Sarah S.
Akwaaba! My name is Sarah and I am a Social Work student from Halifax, Nova Scotia. I will be using this blog as a way to document the ever-unfolding events here at The Sankofa Centre [...]
Kayla’s Nurse Intern Experience By:Kayla W.
Hello! My name is Kayla Witkowski, a nursing intern with The Sankofa Center, and I’m writing to discuss my experiences here in Ghana. Below is a beautiful picture of the compound that I captured upon [...]