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25. Waste (Mis)management

There is no such thing here in Ghana. The mentality of trash is the exact opposite of my own back home. Everywhere you look it is ...

Before I came to Ghana I already admired the tradition of carrying things on your head. It just makes so much sense. Through out my...

-perspective sketch of the exterior by me The design of the clinic came out of a few constraints: Time! Material measurements and...

With two hours of car time each day, that leaves a lot of room for jamming to some tunes. Both fortunately and unfortunately there are a...

This weekend we took a mini vacation and went to the Cape Coast. We split into two groups on Saturday afternoon- some of us going to the...

Here's some more progress shots of our work site. We have begun to lift the formworks up off the ground to pour the second layer of...

We took a little excursion on Sunday to a couple local craft villages. We learned about cloth stamping, Kente weaving, and the history...

Everyday at the site we take a group picture after the hard day's work wth the staged go-pro camera. Today we forgot to but it worked...

Our workshop has always been centered around the idea of building out of the earth. Even before changing project types and sites we had...

It's Patrick's birthday, we have made killer construction progress, and we have some new volunteers so we are celebrating. We took a...

As mentioned in earlier posts I am making the effort to sketch and draw the things I see rather than the things I think about. Of course...

With or without a construction/ architecture degree, we can probably all agree that the foundation of a building is most important. ...

So far I have written so much about our day to day and new culture we are experiencing. That is not to say that our construction project...

How have I not shared these yet! I think I was a horticulturist in my past life, or maybe my future, or maybe I was a bumble bee, I don't...

There are a lot of animals on the compound. Each morning I am woken up by a symphony of chickens, roosters, goats, sheep, bugs, birds,...