The latest chapter of Hope for Ghana’s work was featured in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on January 30, 2014. Here is an excerpt from “Fundraiser to benefit Penn Hills doctor’s mission work”:
“Ghana is amazing,” he said. “At that time it was under a military coup (regime), but now it’s a democratic country. The people are welcoming and beautiful.”
Greene said what truly struck him was the level of need.
“There’s always something you can do to impact the people and make their lives better,” he said. “It really draws you back.”
After meeting a local doctor, whose family he had worked with, Greene began making trips outside of Operation Crossroads Africa, and now has his own charity, Hope for Ghana, organized in 2011 with the goal of “creating opportunity through education for the children of Ghana.”
Greene’s work with the Ryvanz-Mia orphanage in the town of Kpando, located in the southeast of the country, inspired his current work.
“I thought that one of the greatest things I could give would be education: some means of a brighter future and a way to escape the poverty they’re in,” he said.
Over the next few years, Greene used the charity to construct a small library and computer lab for the orphanage. The lab has six computers hooked up to a variety of learning software, although they are not equipped for Internet access.
Chick-fil-A will dedicate its Feb. 6 “Spirit Night” to Hope for Ghana, which will receive a portion of the evening’s proceeds between 4 and 7 p.m.
“Chick-fil-A is amazing,” Greene said. “I’m truly blessed to have them take one of their ‘Spirit Nights’ and dedicate it to my mission work. I’m very grateful and humbled that among all the charitable causes they could invest in, they’d choose mine.”