Mondo's volunteers in Ghana

Three months has passed so fast.   So, what we did with my beautiful fellow volunteer Marina - because of period stigma we had an idea to train girls in Junior High Schools and produce reusable sanitary pads to them. We trained almost 300 students! In our project were included local seamstresses, teachers from schools, students, their parents. A lot of people at the end.  In hospital I was working actually everywhere, in ER with local nurses, doctors assistants, but mainly with young midwives Emanuela and Gladis. They were amazing. In this clinic, Ayamfoya Memorial Clinic, midwives are so independent, they do everything. What was interesting as a family planning method, that most common method is injectable one - it's given as an injection every three months. A lot of girls choose this. But the problem is, a lot of girls are already pregnant when they come for check up, and they haven't done pregnancy test yet. So all patients who come to family planning check-up they need to ...

Here I am. In Upper East Ghana during this special time when countries are in lockdown and Covid-19 is felt even here in this little village with population around 6000. It was just few months ago when I had call about possible deployment to Ghana from my NGO Mondo, and I decided spontaneously ‘'why not’’ to use this opportunity and go to Kongo village, to support local communities during this special pandemic time. Cold estonian temperature of -15-20C with big ‘’fat’’ snow has been now replaced with hot and dry climate, average daily temperature 39-40C. The climate of Ghana is tropical and there are two main seasons: the wet and the dry seasons. The harmattan, a dry desert wind lowers the humidity and causes hotter days, cooler nights. My journey to Ghana went smoothly. The women and all the villagers have been really welcoming,   helpful, friendly, always smile and ask ''how your day has been’’, or ‘’ how is your family’’', having good discussion is ‘' a must’’ in...