Photo Gallery
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"Hotel" courtyard -
View from breakfast at the hotel -
Airport -
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Ghana Highway -
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Tires for sale -
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Typical street side -
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My bedroom in Capecoast -
My homestay's puppy -
View of the hallway to rooms and bathroom -
View of kitchen from the outside -
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Dining room -
Kitchen -
Bathroom sink -
Toilet -
Shower room -
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The fruit bowl my family provided for me -
Fried plantains I heloed cook, with tomato fish stew -
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Rinsing plantains before they go into the oil -
Letting the plantains fry -
Slicing plantains to be fried -
Slicing plantains -
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Anotherview of my dirty room -
A view of Kotocraba, the big town market -
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Courtyard where children play soccer -
Beach piglets -
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Outside view of Cape Coast castle -
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The sagness in the beauty of the beach... covered in trash -
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impact project day -
Building a commnity center -
More building. This is where we dumped the dirt that we collected from down the hill and c -
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Very happy villager -
House sister -
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Stormy walk to work -
Our June Intern group with the lovely Kofi, our project coordinator and tour guide all in -
Ball and chain that was found in the Slave RIver in 2005 -
Touching the water of Slave River. Behind the bamboos tress in the right of this image is -
Our tour guide splashing the water where the slaves took their last bath -
Slave River -
After the slaves long journey by foot, they took their last bath here before they were to -
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Names of local cheifs who have passed away -
Ghana's first president -
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More cheifs who have passed away -
The walk to the Slave River -
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A place where people who visited the Slave River can sign once they have returned -
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This is, of course, MLK -
Inside the slave memorial walls were paintings of famous African Americans -
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The chains being broken, signifying freedom to all -
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Notice the now broken chains on the man painted on the door. -
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My view for lunch -
Main stairway at Cape Coast Castle -
This was an entrance to the under ground tunnel where slaves were smuggled. It is now bloc -
Ghanaian Sheild -
More views form lunch -
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The many fishing boats off of the coast near the Castle -
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The view of my walk home -
The dorr of no return wehre slaves would say goodbye to anything they may have had in life -
A local making is very own fishing net -
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The line of cannons with Cape Coast in the background -
Main staircase -
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Charli sanding on a peer at the castle -
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Opening in the Jungle -
My nursing friends should all be very knowledgable on the use of this drug! -
Hiking up to the canopy walkways -
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Me and Charli getting ready to run through the tree tops -
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The view near the walkway me and Chali sprinted across -
Stef completeing her wlak across 1 of 7 very narrow and very shaky canopy bridges -
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According to our guide, these bridges can hold the weight of two, yes two elephants... I w -
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The view of how narrow the boards were to walk on. Not to mention they wobble, so it was v -
View into the dense jungle -
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Yes.. It is a live crocodile -
He was mad that he did not get pet -
Stingless Bee Center... Prettiest place in Ghana! -
Stingless bees -
The Croc I pet -
Height of the canopy walkway... We were above the tree line -
Charli learning how to Batik dye fabric -
Hungry croc -
Me making my Batik fabric -
My custome made nurses uniform -
Josh doing Batik as well -
Morning ritual with Petra -
Typical pre-school photoshoot -
The group at our day hike in the Kakum forrest -
Stingless bee hives -
More Batik -
The celebration of a funeral parading in the streets -
Danielle coloring her Batik fabric -
Our "Croc Trainer" who also doubles as a chef at Hans Cottage.... -
Cocoa fruit -
More bees -
Refreshments after our hike at Kakum -
The finished product of my Batik fabric! -
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Pink pineapple -
More of Charli doing Batik -
My new best friend -
Theatrice Batik dying -
The family cooking dinner together -
Witches pot we used to wash our fabric once we were finished -
Charli and the croc -
Family cooking again -
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Canopy walkway -
Bees, butterflies, and prayingmantus all in one -
Bee in flight -
Coloring my fabric -
Theatrice making her design with a wax stamp -
Danielle finishing her wax design -
Rinsing off the wax for the final step -
Coloring the fabric -
Funeral parade -
More of Petras photoshoot -
Cool tree roots -
Preparing the cocoa seeds -
My croc friend -
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A little of home here in Ghana -
Zhi Xuan making his was design -
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Giant leaves that I found amusing -
Butterflies and a pretty plant -
Stray kittens at my homestay -
Petra observing Auntie Maggie -
Our instructor teaching us the ways of Batik dying -
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He was sad that I was leaving him -
Cool lizards here in Ghana -
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Action shot of Charli -
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My sick puppy friend -
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The girls -
The girls at Oasis celebrating birthdays and the end of interns trips -
A night of dancing at Oasis -
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Very..Very confused -
I thought we were finished with the run... I was wrong -
Preparing to sink -
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"Bring it arounndd town" -
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I was confused as to what he was trying to teach me -
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Charli standing! -
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Charli mastering her body boarding -
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We are naturals... -
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Not quite -
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Practicing... much easier on solid ground -
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We had to master body boarding first... check! -
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Finally standing... sort of -
Telling us we must run before we surf... I didn't sign up for cardio -
Station for urine analysis -
Center table for Sickle Cell and Malaria identification. This is also where the doctor rec -
The centrifuge we use along side a broken tile peice used for Typhoid screening and blood -
The court yard to OLGH with the Maternity Ward in the background -
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Blood screening station -
The entrance to the main building and administrative offices -
The walkway to the gate entrance with the school chapel at the top of the hill -
The station for blood typing/crossmatching, HIV/Hepatitis/syphilis/typhoid screening, and -
Main station in the delivery room at the maternity ward. These are all their essential too -
Standard conditions for mothers and their babies at the maternity ward -
Me and Ebo, a fellow student who taught me everything he knows during my 6 weeks at the la -
The group of all the main guys I have worked with for 6 weeks -
Roger and I, he is the one who taught me all about different cells found in urine, and how -
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The staining station at the lab -
The office at the Mat. Ward. The delivery room is to the left, seperated by a thin blue cu -
the Main desk in the lab -
Thankfully since the strike the ward has been slow, but normally many mothers would reside -
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Outside of the Mat. Ward -
Main supplies at the Mat. Ward -
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Check-in desk for the lab -
Typlical bed at the Mat. Ward -
The waiting room at the lab, VERY empty due to the strike. It is normally packed with peop -
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Inside the delivery room.Mothers deliver within 3 feet of each other, and the blue curtain -
The table where blood is taken for donation -
Another room at the Mat. Ward -
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William hard at work -
Another Mat. room. The buckets on the ground are what the women use for a rest room. -
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Where newborns are weighed cleaned and then placed after delivery -
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