Global News by Tag: Ghana
ACCRA, GHANA – Nana Okyere Akrofie, 24, says it has been months since he and his neighbors have had water flow from their taps in North Legon, a suburb of Accra, Ghana’s capital.
“The situation is so bad that for over four months now, we have not had water supply in our area,” Akrofie says.
HO, GHANA – Nadia Nyarko, 17, is in her fourth year studying general arts at Mawuko Girls Senior High School, a boarding school in Volta, a region in southeastern Ghana. She also volunteers as a peer educator with Village Exchange International/Ghana, VEG, a nonprofit organization that aims to provide small loans, income-generating projects, and sexual and reproductive health information to young women in Ho, the capital of Volta.
ACCRA, GHANA – Abigail Bentil Holton, 26, is blind. But she says that, despite her disability, she has achieved a lot.
Holton attained her Bachelor of Arts in political science and French at the University of Ghana. She is currently working with the African Forum Secretariat, an office associated with the Ghana Blind Union, part of the Ghana Association of the Blind, a nongovernmental organization, NGO.
BOLGATANGA, GHANA – When Regina Adado Mensah, now the mother of four children, had her first child at age 17, medicine in the local clinic where she gave birth in northern Ghana was in short supply.
“The problem we faced was the access to medicine before one gives birth,” she says. “Since it was in short supply, some nurses sold them to us when the head nurse was not around. Therefore, if you had no money, you [could] not buy the medicine to use.”
ACCRA, GHANA – Genevieve Osei, 15, is a student of the Holy Trinity Senior High School in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. She is also a member of Curious Minds, a local youth development organization. Osei and dozens of other teens attended a colloquium yesterday to discuss the national budget for 2011.
ACCRA, GHANA – “You Count, So Be Counted,” read the signs plastered throughout the capital city. On September 26, Ghana launched its eleventh census campaign. But after more than a month of delays, material shortages, resident conflicts and logistical delays, Dr. Grace Bediako, the government statistician overseeing the census, announced last week that the count is nearly complete. The process, however, advocates charge was rife with problems and the accuracy of the numbers collected is in doubt.
ACCRA, GHANA – Millions of Ghanaians are paying exorbitant rents for their apartment homes here, even those that lack basic bathroom facilities. Poor residents of the capital city report increased difficulty in finding apartments to rent as more and more landlords turn their homes into hostels to accommodate foreign students at a higher rent cost. Housing issues are among the many challenges facing Ghana as population figures skyrocket.