The joy and impact felt during my recent 6 week trip to Ghana was beyond incredible. A visit to where it all started for me in Ghana 37 years ago when I was a medical student set the emotional tone for a journey well traveled. My cherished visit with Bea Marbell in Suhum was my way of honoring her husband’s impact on my life as a mentor and a father.
Hope for Ghana’s third school, Lawrence’s School of Hope, opened its doors, and is now the home of over 200 students from kindergarten to 6th grade starving for an education. We are very excited that in the near future we will add classrooms to support a junior high school on this campus. We are thrilled to have broken ground to begin work on our fourth school in the coming weeks.
Hope for Ghana continued to give the gift of life, providing clean, potable water, but taking our water mission to a new level. Two villages, where drilled water was recently found to be undrinkable, now have their water going through a reverse osmosis purification machine, with all electricity provided by solar power. Pure water at no cost to the village is sustainability at its best!
11 young women and men began their journey to become seamstresses/tailors and hairdressers as part of Hope for Ghana’s Apprentice Sponsorship program.
Brother’s Brother Foundation’s second shipment of desperately needed medical supplies is on the sea, expected to arrive in Ghana’s port any day now. Maternity delivery tables, exam tables, hospital beds and surgical trays are about to change the landscape of healthcare delivery in Ghana.
The story emerging in Ghana is a powerful and beautiful story of hope and opportunity, of joy and life. Hope for Ghana’s future is bursting with possibilities, and I thank you for being part of this life saving story.
