AgriCorps is launching a crowdfunding campaign!!! As many of you know, I have been living and working in Ghana, West Africa for the last year and a half. Last academic year, I was working with students and teachers at the SDA College of Education in Koforidua, Eastern Region. Seeing students grow and flourish through agriculture, […]
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It’s Thanksgiving week and we are thankful for all the support we have received in the first week of our crowdfunding campaign. Because of your generosity and help in spreading the word, we have already raised over $6,000 of our $30,000 goal. Our goal is to have 100 CrowdRise donors by December 1. Whether it’s […]
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A couple of months ago, the 11 Americans working with AgriCorps in the Eastern Region of Ghana met for our first monthly meeting. We had just spent our first few weeks in our assigned communities and had plenty to talk about – crazy stories, complaints, weird discoveries, good and bad experiences, interesting living situations, and […]
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How do you raise $30,000 to send a high quality, motivated, creative AgriCorps Member overseas for a year to teach agricultural education? Together. We’re raising $30,000 in 30 days to send an AgriCorps Member overseas for a year, and we’re doing it TOGETHER through $10, $25, and $100 donations. Each ACM is deployed to a […]
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As I looked down at my red dust-covered boots and wiped my sweaty brow with my sweaty hand, I pondered about the journey ahead. It was a long, narrow, and very un-maintained road. I heard Emmanuel (the outreach coordinator at KITA) say “this way, this road goes to Kokoben”. I responded with “lets do this”. […]
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Monday’s lesson plan for the Agriculture Education class was quite simple. A quick game of Two Truths and One Lie followed by a warm up question, class discussion and group activity. What I thought would be a normal, yet engaging lesson for them quickly became a cultural one for me. As I stood in front […]
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Within my host family, I am blessed to have two younger brothers. These two boys are always bright spots in my day. The oldest son, Clement, 12 years old, has many responsibilities around the house. He helps with the cleaning by sweeping off the porch and doing dishes. He also goes to the farm some […]
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As we neared the top of the mountain we could still hear the church music playing down below. It had been a much longer walk than we had anticipated and our bodies had soaked up all the humidity in the air. The view at the top was amazing, we could see the whole town and […]
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The thick African bush began closing in around our legs and as we hacked through the prickly vines that grabbed at us from the earth below and we began to shove past the huge tree branches, I began to loose sight of my Ghanaian guide. It was nine-thirty when we first stepped into the bush— each […]
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I remember my first 4-H meeting, in the basement of a small church. My Dad made it sound like it would be fun, and maybe it would have if they hadn’t expected me—ME—to stand and state my name, age, and where I went to school. As a child of 9, I had no idea how […]
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