Laticia
This is my favorite woman at the clinic...and just so you HIPPAA police know (hehe:), I have her (and the clinic's) permission to put her on my site:) (social work school has trained me to be very careful of this!:) Laticia is an amazing woman who is very sick with tuberculosis and AIDS--despite her illness, she always seems to be in amazing spirits. In this picture, she is busy making bead necklaces to sell to people passing by the clinic....the clinic has organized a "bead group" consisting of those living with AIDS who make and sell necklaces to help pay for their treatment. It is a good income generating activity, as well as a good way to empower the patients!
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 
