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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreI 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
Read MoreThe last of the re-usable feminine pads that I brought from the US were distributed to a group of women from Kaare, Winkogo and Gorgo villages. The project was a success and much appreciated by the women and girls. Thanks to Hawa for helping to organize and to the group of Hope Kaare Church youth
Read MoreThis is Lizzy, a bright, energetic student sponsored by the Community Wings scholarship fund for the past 7 years. She is now completing her final year of nurses training college here in Bolgatanga. Her dream is to help her community in the health field, wherever she gets posted. I’m so proud of her tenacity to
Read MoreHello from Ghana, This past week, I met with a group of 15 young women who sewed on Velcro and fleece strips to the unfinished pad shields. Some of them needed a lesson or two on how to sew with needle and thread. (They do not have access to sewing machines). We talked about how
Read MoreThe Peal Deng/Community Wings study center progress. This week groups of boys and some of the girls have been coming to sand the rusted metal frames before we paint with enamel on the unfinished benches for the computer lab. Two more shelves have been ordered from the welder and Wawa wood was purchased, planed and
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Hey team, Linda writing from Ghana. Hoping you will read, comment, and watch the TedTalk link here Many of you attended one of the “pad parties” that Community Wings organized on both coasts. I was able to bring only part of the pads made by the many volunteers who cut, sewed and pinned pads. In
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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
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This winter, we are donating some specific items to our newly built study center and library as well as to our partner school in Northern Ghana, St. Joseph’s, Primary and Junior Secondary School. We are collecting quality books for young people, through high school age. These will fill the shelves of the new library in conjunction
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