Photo Gallery
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"Hotel" courtyard
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View from breakfast at the hotel
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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
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My homestay's puppy
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View of the hallway to rooms and bathroom
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View of kitchen from the outside
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Dining room
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Kitchen
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Bathroom sink
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Toilet
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Shower room
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The fruit bowl my family provided for me
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Fried plantains I heloed cook, with tomato fish stew
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Rinsing plantains before they go into the oil
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Letting the plantains fry
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Slicing plantains to be fried
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Slicing plantains
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Anotherview of my dirty room
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A view of Kotocraba, the big town market
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Courtyard where children play soccer
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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
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Building a commnity center
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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
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House sister
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Stormy walk to work
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Our June Intern group with the lovely Kofi, our project coordinator and tour guide all in
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Ball and chain that was found in the Slave RIver in 2005
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Touching the water of Slave River. Behind the bamboos tress in the right of this image is
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Our tour guide splashing the water where the slaves took their last bath
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Slave River
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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
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Ghana's first president
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More cheifs who have passed away
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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
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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
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Main stairway at Cape Coast Castle
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This was an entrance to the under ground tunnel where slaves were smuggled. It is now bloc
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Ghanaian Sheild
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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
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The dorr of no return wehre slaves would say goodbye to anything they may have had in life
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A local making is very own fishing net
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The line of cannons with Cape Coast in the background
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Main staircase
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Charli sanding on a peer at the castle
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Opening in the Jungle
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My nursing friends should all be very knowledgable on the use of this drug!
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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
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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
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View into the dense jungle
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Yes.. It is a live crocodile
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He was mad that he did not get pet
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Stingless Bee Center... Prettiest place in Ghana!
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Stingless bees
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The Croc I pet
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Height of the canopy walkway... We were above the tree line
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Charli learning how to Batik dye fabric
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Hungry croc
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Me making my Batik fabric
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My custome made nurses uniform
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Josh doing Batik as well
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Morning ritual with Petra
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Typical pre-school photoshoot
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The group at our day hike in the Kakum forrest
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Stingless bee hives
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More Batik
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The celebration of a funeral parading in the streets
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Danielle coloring her Batik fabric
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Our "Croc Trainer" who also doubles as a chef at Hans Cottage....
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Cocoa fruit
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More bees
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Refreshments after our hike at Kakum
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The finished product of my Batik fabric!
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Pink pineapple
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More of Charli doing Batik
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My new best friend
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Theatrice Batik dying
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The family cooking dinner together
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Witches pot we used to wash our fabric once we were finished
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Charli and the croc
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Family cooking again
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Canopy walkway
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Bees, butterflies, and prayingmantus all in one
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Bee in flight
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Coloring my fabric
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Theatrice making her design with a wax stamp
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Danielle finishing her wax design
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Rinsing off the wax for the final step
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Coloring the fabric
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Funeral parade
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More of Petras photoshoot
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Cool tree roots
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Preparing the cocoa seeds
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My croc friend
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A little of home here in Ghana
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Zhi Xuan making his was design
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Giant leaves that I found amusing
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Butterflies and a pretty plant
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Stray kittens at my homestay
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Petra observing Auntie Maggie
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Our instructor teaching us the ways of Batik dying
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He was sad that I was leaving him
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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
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The girls at Oasis celebrating birthdays and the end of interns trips
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A night of dancing at Oasis
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Very..Very confused
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I thought we were finished with the run... I was wrong
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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
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Telling us we must run before we surf... I didn't sign up for cardio
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Station for urine analysis
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Center table for Sickle Cell and Malaria identification. This is also where the doctor rec
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The centrifuge we use along side a broken tile peice used for Typhoid screening and blood
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The court yard to OLGH with the Maternity Ward in the background
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Blood screening station
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The entrance to the main building and administrative offices
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The walkway to the gate entrance with the school chapel at the top of the hill
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The station for blood typing/crossmatching, HIV/Hepatitis/syphilis/typhoid screening, and
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Main station in the delivery room at the maternity ward. These are all their essential too
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Standard conditions for mothers and their babies at the maternity ward
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Me and Ebo, a fellow student who taught me everything he knows during my 6 weeks at the la
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The group of all the main guys I have worked with for 6 weeks
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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
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The office at the Mat. Ward. The delivery room is to the left, seperated by a thin blue cu
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the Main desk in the lab
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Thankfully since the strike the ward has been slow, but normally many mothers would reside
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Outside of the Mat. Ward
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Main supplies at the Mat. Ward
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Check-in desk for the lab
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Typlical bed at the Mat. Ward
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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
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The table where blood is taken for donation
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Another room at the Mat. Ward
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William hard at work
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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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