Mondo's volunteers in Ghana

  3 months? Are you serious? Where has my time gone? How did it happen that is already March if we arrived in town yesterday? Still really hard to believe that our time here is finishing and the project is ending. And YES we have to leave , YES, we have to say bye to Victor, to the seamstresses, to John... I have never thought it was going to be that difficult.   Kongo market square and KoCDA office (in blue) Victor, resting at shea butter house    John and I at shea butter house And while I try to believe, things are happening and life goes on. During the months of February and March my work was focused on 4 main aspects: -           Giving Sexual Education Sessions to Junior High School students -           Production and distribution of reusable sanitary pads -           Performing health assessments to new sponsored...

Finally, we left. Finally, we are in Ghana, and it is still hard to believe . I left home, Madrid, during this uncertain time, after (during?) Covid19 era. I have left my co-workers nurses at the hospital facing the second and third waves of this pandemic, and I still asking myself if it was a fair decision. I have switched from Covid19 rapid tests to Malaria rapid tests in less than a week. I have changed the snow for the amazing sunsets and the dust, and the gray and black for thousand of colors. And I feel alive. New place, new house, new family, new job, new challenges. Let's begin! Our first weeks can be described with one word: MEETINGS . Meetings all the time. We were introduced to a lot of people that it felt so difficult to remember all their names and their titles. Day-to-day situation: “Hello, I am Marina, I am a nurse” and my colleague “Hello, I am Maria, I am a midwife” and after this really confused faces looking at us. Is it the same name? What is the difference? Ar...