During our first implementation trip, we set out with three objectives: Drill a borehole to supply 1500 high school students with water Conduct pumping test to evaluate the performance of the pumping yield Involve the community by creating a committee for the project management The newly drilled borehole yields water, but a little under our target. After the travel team left Ullo, they met with a local water distribution design company to

So… Uh.. No toilet paper? Upon arrival to Ghana, I quickly learned not to expect there to be toilet paper in public toilets.  Still, I was surprised when I went to use the bathroom on the flight from Tamale back to Wa and there was none.  That was one place I was really expecting to find toilet paper.   No, this isn’t a chronicle of my Ghanaian bathroom experiences.  Instead, this is a

     It’s such a funny thing when friends and family ask me about my trip to UIlo. “Oh my goodness! How was Africa?! That’s where you went, right?” My usual answer is simply, “amazing.” But every now and then someone really looks at me asks about my experience. That’s when I tell them to pull up a chair. There is no passing way to describe the world in which I lived, even

  Ullo is a small town in the Upper West Region of Ghana, approximately 6000 miles away. Traveling there requires two 8 hour flights, a 1 hour flight, and about 8 hours of driving on roads that are, let’s say less than ideal. By the time I reached the community it was dark, I was exhausted, and even a little bit nauseous. But the second my feet hit that dusty ground, I felt