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CLICK FOR INTERACTIVE MAPVillage at the lake-side: dancing
sachara Says: The drummers started to drum, so it was time for dancing.Many of the Ghanaian volunteers were also good dancers and danced together with the villagers. They...
Village at the lake-side: drumming
sachara Says: When we returned from the boatride we heard allready the drumming in the village.Nice to hear and to look and .... time for dancing. While we were listening,...
sachara Says: In the village at the lakeside we were invited for a boattrip at the Lake Volta. It was a very nice experience to sail In small narrow boats between the drowned...
Village at the lake-side: storage, cooking and ...
sachara Says: It was very nice to be invited in this village. So we could have a close look at their daily life On the picture you can see, that under one roof the women do...
sachara Says: In the afternoon after the work in Nkonya Wuropong we were invited in a small village at the lake-side of Lake Volta.from Nkonya Wuropong it was an one hour...
Nkonya, we didn't make it......
sachara Says: After nearly 10 years in 1989 I visited the Volta Region again. My fellow travellers liked to see ''my village'' an camp there.Because of very bad road...
Nkonya Wuropong, help of the women
sachara Says: Everyday a lot of people from the village came to work with us. Mostly women.One of the conditions to get a voluntary project is that also the villagers...
sachara Says: Sometimes we are lucky and could pound our own fufu at our kitchen behind the primary school.Fufu with groundnutsoup is my favourite dish in Ghana. Marian, a...
Nkonya Wuropong, we did our own cooking
sachara Says: In Nkonya Wuroping we did our own cooking.We lived during summerholiday in the unused primary school.At the backside in the shade was our kitchen.We had our own...
Village at the lake-side: eating fufu
sachara Says: After the dancing and before we had to walk back to Nkonya Wuropong, we got a nice meal of fufu with a palmnut soup.The first thing you learn is to eat always...
Nkonya Wuropong, making stones
sachara Says: The work for the building of the community centre we had to do was: cleaning the yard, bringing many, many headpans with concrete to the bricklayers and the...
sachara Says: It's nice to stay for a few weeks in one village and to do voluntary work with a lot of Ghanaian volunteers from all over the country: many students, teachers,...
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It's nice to stay for a few weeks in one village and to do voluntary work with a lot of Ghanaian volunteers from all over the country: many students, teachers,...
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In 1980 I visited for the first time the Volta region. After a few days in Ho and Kpandu I travelled to Nkonya Wuropong. With a lot of Ghanaian volunteers -and some European- I helped with the start...
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One of the world's largest artificial lakes, it was formed in 1965 when the Akosombo Dam dammed the Volta River and created a reservoir that extends about 400 km upstream to beyond the former...
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