Mondo's volunteers in Ghana

The NGO Rays of Hope Centre (where I'm volunteering) has an Instagram and Facebook account, but they don't have a constant person to take care of these two.  For NGOs, the presence in Social Media can be profitable since these platforms help to share their message, engage with the community, raise awareness, and find new supporters for free. But Instagram and Facebook are like pets - they need constant care. Currently, I'm the person who's taking care of the accounts. But to keep the channels up to date in the future, we decided to train five staff members who would take over weekly posting after the end of my deployment. Let's get down to training! The training was a one-day event. First, we went over the statistics about different social media apps. Did you know that there's a new trending app called BeReal ?  Second, we discussed what to post on NGO pages and stopped more on ethics about sharing photos of children. The topic is complicated since Rays of Hope...

  At the beginning of the month, I was in an art gallery, the Artists Alliance Gallery, in Accra. I was there with some friends on a Saturday afternoon. The place is amazing; it has three floors full of African arts: painting, jewellery, fabrics, statues and so much more (unfortunately, I can’t show you pictures because since it is a gallery and every piece is original and for selling, they don’t allow photos). At some point, I was digging around some oil paintings on a random counter and I saw one that impressed me. It is a painting of three Ghanaian women. One is carrying a baby in the typical way (on the back, wrapped in a fabric) and all three have large trays full of stuff on the head. The background is light brown, like a sky full of sand. It reflects the women reality that I see every day around me in Ashaiman. It is very impressive how these women can carry heavy things on trays on their heads as if it is nothing, with grace and agility even in the traffic or in crowded p...