Lars heating up the food

The end of the Orientation, the beginning of the Placement

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May 10th 2008
So all of us volunteers from SYTO have moved on to our different placements around Ghana. We all enjoyed each other's company and felt we would miss each other. There was a kind of secure feeling us Europeans being together, learning about Ghana, but now we are placed in the middle of culture! In our Orientation week we learned a bit of Ghanian cooking; fried plantains (bit like bananas), beans, a ... read more

Africa » Ghana » Central

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Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more