My collegue at Radio Justice Adams Abdul Sammed and I went to visit the Yilonaayili Anglican Primary School earlier this month. Sammed first became interested in this school when he met one of the teachers Madame Judith. She told him about some of the challenges at the school (such as overcrowding) and how she has been trying to help some of the students who come from very poor families. We spent the morning at the school talking to the teachers and meeting the students. Here is a photo essay on what we found. Yilonaayili Anglican Primary School is is the only [View Full Entry]

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Note: Freedom Thursdays is a weekly Human Rights program on our Radio Station Justice FM. Since I have arrived we have looked at a variety of topics including the efforts to eradicate Guinea Worm, Mental Illness and the stigma attached to it and the relationship between police and the community. This month we also focused on the phenomenon of the ‘kayayoo’. Ending Kayayoo in the North By Nichole Huck Kayayoo is the migration of school age girls from the rural areas in the north of Ghana to the South where they hope to find work. The girls find themselves in menial [View Full Entry]

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Photos and stories by Adams Abdul Sammed Editor’s Note: This is the second photo essay by my co-worker Sammed. These photographs were taken during our first photo essay workshop. All the women live in his neighbourhood. [View Full Entry]

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Hello friends… Halloween came and went…Shawn and I marked the day with a papaya jack-o-lantern. Since my last update…Shawn and I have moved. We are now living in a house with another girl from Regina (Shawn Hughes) a Dutch guy, a girl from Denmark and one Ghanaian woman. It’s been really great to cook for ourselves - and as I type this…I’m listening to the prayers from the mosque next door. Five times a day (starting at 4 am sharp) the loudspeaker gets fired up to call everyone from the neighbourhood to the mosque to pray. Shawn has been invol [View Full Entry]

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Photos and Stories by Adams Abdul Sammed Photo Essay: Child’s Play Note from Nichole: After our first photo journalism workshop Sammed and I hit the streets near our radio station to capture the images and stories of people in the neighbourhood. Sammed lives in the area - so he familiar with all the people featured in the photos. This photo essay is entitled “Child’s Play” - It introduces you to a world where children need to work to help their familes survive. This is his first photo essay - but as you can see he had a natural eye for photography. [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone… Sorry it has taken so long to send a proper update. My old standby Kodakgallery doesn't work from here so I'm hoping this will work as a way for me to stay in touch! I am now settling in at Justice FM in Tamale. I feel like I’m a newborn learning everything for the first time. I’m learning the culture, local language, food, as well as how different things are like politics and the media. I’m living with a family - it has been interesting. It has helped me learn about the food - and just some basics about [View Full Entry]

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