Janet & Mark in Ghana

Janet Scott and Mark Leger moved to Ghana in January. Mark worked for an organization called Journalists for Human Rights. He helped Ghanaian journalists report more effectively on human rights issues. Janet worked with Canadian Crossroads International, helping Ghanaian people living with AIDS/ HIV set up small businesses. She returned to Canada at the end of June. Mark returned at the end of August.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

A friend in need

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I got a call the other day from Victor, the unemployed man I wrote about in "Lost in the Crowd" (July 18). "My daughter has b...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Fear factor

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We would have never come here if we had listened to the travel nurse in Saint John. She said we were going to the riskiest part of the world...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

A vacation in Togo

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(Note: I wanted to write about our vacation in Togo, but didn't have time before returning to Canada. Here is the story with a few pict...
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Lost in the crowd

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I met Victor on a street corner in an Accra neighbourhood called Pig Farm; I was standing mesmerized by the chaos around me, trying not to b...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Sermon on the bus

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He seemed like a mild-mannered fellow when I sat down beside him in the front seat of the tro-tro. I was on my way to the refugee camp where...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Plotting for a Garden

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My new garden patch is 3 feet by 8 feet. "Wide enough for a small casket," my mom said ruefully staring down at the soil. I stood ...
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A sweet deal

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I met Mohammed just after I’d walked through the front gate of my yard yesterday morning. He had a plastic blue container, which resembled m...
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