Linda is going to Ghana

March 14, 2016 | Linda Atwater | Community Wings

This is the sign that greeted me on my last day of work for a couple of months. “Hey, Ghana miss all of you too.” I’ll be taking a part of each of you that donated used and new books, used laptops, worked on the feminine pads and donated funds to get the books shipped AND for the ongoing scholarship fund.

I’ll be posting here from Ghana and would love to keep connected, Linda

Letter from Kwabena Donny

July 30, 2016 | Linda Atwater | 1 Comment | Community Wings

I just received a letter from scholarship receipient Donny Kwabena Tongbil in Ghana and I would like to share it with all of you. Dear Auntie Linda, How are you doing? And how is work and the entire family? I miss you greatly. I am done with my Summer internship and the company gave me Ghc250 (about $64) to cover the cost I incurred from transportation during my working period. I really had a great experience from working in the company. (A banking and finance … [Read More...]

Youth That Inspire Me

June 11, 2016 | Linda Atwater | Community Wings

In April 2016, I became aware of two cousins, very active in the Hope Ghana church, were walking some 6 kilometers to activities. They came a few times a week for services, choir practice and volunteer work in the computer lab/library. Last year, when the boys dropped out of their local junior high, Hope Church enrolled the boys in a different school and furnished bicycles for each to ride the 10 kilometers to school and back. Their bikes broke down and now they were walking. (Here with … [Read More...]

Ghana with Linda

May 30, 2016 | Linda Atwater | Community Wings, Ghana Scholarship Fund

I love going on home visits in the villages. This trip to Ghana, we identified some new scholarship recipients. One, Rebecca Azure lives with her disabled, widowed mother and four siblings. An elder sister stopped schooling when their father died, for lack of funds and does Kayayo work in the Bolgatanga market. She carries loads for shoppers in the market for whatever they tip her. Last month, she gave one of the village women 10 cedis (about $2.50) to send back to the village for Rebecca's … [Read More...]