A walk through town, photos and goodbyes
The last few days of our trip we focused on capturing individual photographs of all the children in the school. Families pay for their students to attend the school, but the bulk of the operating costs of the school are covered by individual student sponsorships in the US and Canada. We also met the twenty new adorable nursery students (age 3 and 4) who will be starting school in the fall and took their photos while their parents attended an orientation with Father Paul.
We continued our interviews of the older girls and interviewed Pius, the smartest boy in the 6th grade. Interestingly, he said that he didn’t like that girls were subjugated in Ghana. He said that in God’s eyes all men and women are equal and that men and women need each other.
We have noticed that almost every day, there are groups of people dressed in black and red head to toe kente cloth patterns walking along the main roads.These colors are a marker that there is a 2 to 3 day funeral celebration. From our limite…
We continued our interviews of the older girls and interviewed Pius, the smartest boy in the 6th grade. Interestingly, he said that he didn’t like that girls were subjugated in Ghana. He said that in God’s eyes all men and women are equal and that men and women need each other.
We have noticed that almost every day, there are groups of people dressed in black and red head to toe kente cloth patterns walking along the main roads.These colors are a marker that there is a 2 to 3 day funeral celebration. From our limite…