This post comes to us courtesy of Hannah Mae Swope. GHANA!! I can honestly say this is a childhood dream come true. Creating the finances for this trip was more of a struggle than I had anticipated and at times I briefly wondered if I was doing the right thing. I can whole-heartedly say, it […]
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When our interns were in Ghana we partnered with the Sing Me A Story non-profit and had each of the children at an orphanage we visited write/draw stories about whatever they liked, and then Sing Me A Story turns the stories over to songwriters who create a song just for that child based on their […]
First Song
This last post comes to us from one of the trip leaders, Kava Afu. I still haven’t decided what is more saddening – Children in orphanages who would rather stay in the orphanages than be with their families OR children in orphanages who are suffering there and are desperately waiting for a way out. We’ve […]
Week 7
This week’s post comes from one of our trip leaders, Sonya Chaudhry. As a returning member of Kaeme I am always amazed at how quickly time passes on these trips, especially considering the fact that the Ghanaian pace of life can hardly be described as fast. It is crazy to think that this coming week […]
Week 6
This week’s post comes to us courtesy of Hannah Karpel. Although we have been profiling children for a few weeks now, we are never sure what to expect when we arrive at an orphanage. All of the homes we have profiled so far have varied, sometimes pretty extensively, and it always takes us a little to […]
Week 5
This week’s blog post comes to us courtesy of Spencer Thompson. This past week we were working at our second orphanage. It was very very different then the first orphanage we profiled. I had a good opportunity to spend some time talking with the director at this home. His name was John and he is […]
Week 4
This special post comes to us courtesy of Michelle Kwon. Kaeme was contacted by Sing Me A Story several months ago to see if we would be interested in partnering with them while we were in Ghana. Read on to learn more. Sing Me a Story is an NGO that gives vulnerable children in hospitals, […]
Sing Me A Story
This week’s post comes to us courtesy of Marja Diaz After a Sunday of shopping amongst the vendors of an art market and drinking Alvaro (a sweet Pear soda) on the cliffs overlooking the beaches of Accra, it was right back to work Monday morning. The best part? Knowing we would get to see the […]
Week Three
This week’s post comes to us courtesy of Helene Zahoudanis. 7.17.13 First day of work today! We visited three different orphanages that could not have been more different from one another. I think we were all a little disappointed to find that the kids were still in school, so we didn’t really didn’t have the […]
Week 2
Our interns just posted their first video clip from their trip on YouTube: They will periodically upload clips, so subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates!