by Nile Sprague | Feb 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
I visited several programs of Y Care International and the YMCA in Makeni, a few hours drive north east of the Leonian capital Freetown. I met a young woman learning to do metal work and welding, several auto-mechanic students, culinary students, and visited several...
by Nile Sprague | Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
A preelection rally in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) on November 20, 2010, in the town of Divo. This was between the first round of presidential elections, and the run-off election that was held last weekend. I was driving on my way back to Abidjan from visiting...
by Nile Sprague | Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
I visited several maize (corn) farmers in the North of Ghana near Tamale. The harvest was under way, the plants dry in the fields, and the farmers pulling the ears of corn off the stalks and piling them on the ground. Women and young men collected the maize into...
by Nile Sprague | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
This women’s cooperative processes shea nuts into shea butter for use in cocoa and skin products. They use labor intensive traditional techniques, involving grinding the nuts, roasting them, making a paste, mixing it with cold and hot water to separate the...
by Nile Sprague | Nov 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
I was driven 700KM, which took about 8 hours, to visit this cashew processing plant in Touba in North Eastern Côte d’Ivoire, very near the border with Guinea. The factory was great – clean, well run, good equipment. I love cashews, and it was interesting to...
