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Teaching & Building in Ghana

Ghana never ceased to surprise me from the people to the roads to the animals. I guess the comfort of our accommodation shocked me as I was expecting to be living in a mud hut with a long drop as a toilet. I didn’t expect to feel as close to the children as I did in the short space of 5 weeks either. 40p for a beer is always a welcome surprise too! The guys I was living with surprised me as well with a Ghanaian birthday goody bag they had created containing Miss Ghana flip-flops, strawberry milk lollipops and a tellytubby mobile phone toy, which had some annoying tunes but (as we discovered later) a very practical torch! All of this was wrapped in ‘congratulations on your wedding’ paper with a card made from cardboard saying ‘Happy 20th this thing Charlie!’ That birthday was full of Ghanaian humour and is definitely one I will not forget in a hurry.

Katie Beverley spent 6 weeks teaching and building in Ghana.

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