Working Away From Poverty
Check out Working Away From Poverty, an article I wrote that appeared in the Daily Guide.
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ARHR's MetroTV Piece
ARHR’s Executive Director Vicky Okine shares ARHR’s central mission in this piece for Ghana’s MetroTV.
Ho Municipal Hospital – Ghana
At ARHR, we have partnered with MamaYe! Ghana to ensure local hospitals are maintaining the highest standard of care.
Mater Ecclesiae Clinic – Ghana
We are working to ensure rural clinics maintain the highest standard of maternal care. Visit the Mater Ecclesiae Clinic in Volta to witness the change ARHR is making in local communities.
Meet ARHR
We are promoters, defenders and protectors of rights of women and their newborns, and adolescents to the best quality of health care through evidence based advocacy on gaps between policy and practice in the Ghanaian health system. We seek to empower communities to hold government accountable for responsive and equitable health care delivery (or health Read More …
Snacks, Soccer, and Halftime Analysis
July 26th, 2015 — Here is a match report that I wrote on a my third game I saw at the Accra Sports Stadium. I found the match officiating to be quite weak — there were just way too many free kicks called for what I thought to be fair challenges, and I felt that Read More …
Smiles and Ashes
I didn’t bring my camera along very often during the first two weeks of my internship. There were a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I consider myself to be more inclined as a writer or an audio person than a photographer, which is why I requested to be placed at a radio station for Read More …
Lessons Learned
For the past three weeks, have been interning at an advertising agency called Orakle Multimedia Ltd. I hoped to learn a lot and acquire new skills in the advertising and design world. Rather, I was taught more valuable lessons than learning to design my own font and mastering the Adobe programs. There was one coworker that I Read More …
Hospital Conditions in Central Ghana
Last week, a few of us went to the Volta region in central Ghana to document conditions at two local hospitals, the Ho Municipal Hospital and the Mater Ecclesiae Clinic. This is a story I wrote for the Public Agenda about the experience: Although scorecards from hospitals such as the Ho Municipal Hospital and the Read More …
Old Fadama Updates
Today Esi Benewaaa, a Starr FM reporter, and I went to Old Fadama mentioned in my previous post and elsewhere online as Sodom and Gomorrah. The area within Old Fadama called June 4 was the latest area to be demolished, leaving residents displaced. This is a humanitarian crisis that is leaving over 50,000 homeless and Read More …
The One With Stonebwoy, the AllStarr Unity Concert, and Old Fadama
It’s one week into my internship at StarrFM and I’ve worked on many interesting stories that were read on air. Writing for radio in Accra is much different than longer feature, profile, and narrative non-fiction pieces that I’m used to freelance writing. It is also much different than academic writing, a style that is far Read More …