Dear Blog,
I was in the large & crazy Accra market this evening. An enormous collection of merchants who are aggressively selling everything from wood carvings, shirts & drums to chickens, bananas & beer. Even when they are trying to sell you something, the Ghanian people are wonderful. Big smiles, polite & generous. The market environment was dusty & humid. A mixture of smells that included BBQ chicken, leather and sweat. I was amazed to see a man walking through the market with a sewing machine on his head and he was shouting "Garment repairs! Garment repairs!".
We received our assignments today. The ten Canadians have been split into pairs and assigned three credit unions to work with over the next three weeks. My partner and I will be travelling two hours to work in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The first credit union that has asked to work with us has 600 members. We leave on Sunday.