Kirstin
Green, a PCV (Peace Corps Volunteer) in Ghana Note.... These pages are archival in nature but I'm currently involved in various other projects in Ghana. Click here for our latest, TroTroTrading.com ... Kirstin Green I can be contacted HERE. Last update to this site was June 29th 2007. Here's an article from the Coronado Eagle (Feb 2005) |
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If you’ve been to the concert
at the park during the summer or played tennis at the Coronado Cays tennis
court you’ve seen the In January-February of this year my wife, I and fellow Coronado High School track coach, Jack Nash, visited our daughter, Kirstin Green, in the West African country of Ghana where she has been serving in the peace corps for the past 18 months. During our 3 week visit we stayed with various PCV’s (Peace Corps Volunteers), Ghanaian families, and hotels from the Capital city of Accra on the coast to the northern town of Bolgatanga and the sacred Crocodile ponds of Paga. We spent time in the Ashanti town of Kumasi –West Africa’s largest cultural center, Tamale, Cape Coast and the slave castles. We walked a rope bridge nearly 200 feet above a rain forest, walked the markets, rode the trotros, haggled with merchants, swam in lake Bosumtwi -a huge meteor crater and danced to the music of African drums. But best of all we made many friends. Because of Kirstin’s and her fellow PCV’s involvement with their villages we were able to get a perspective of Ghana not possible had we been merely tourists on a packaged trip. We “bathed” with a third of a bucket of cold water, dined on ground-nut (peanut) soup, fufu, banku and kenkey (various starchy pastes pounded into submission by large sticks). In some families we stayed with the “bathroom” was free-range -the goats knew it and would follow you into the bush.
There are two projects that Kirstin would like to complete before her time is up. One is the completion of a public latrine, the other is procurement of a water tank for the local clinic. My wife, Katy, has been a nurse at the Coronado Hospital ER since 1967 and met with the nursing staff there. For what they have to work with, they do an amazing job. They currently have one large water tank for the entire clinic and are required to hand carry the water a bucket at a time.
Please click here for a description of both projects from Kirstin and their progress. By George Green: g1@crowncity.com |