Culture Kit
Ghana #1
ID # 3809
This kit includes many cultural and music items including a kalimba instrument, a bakita instrument, a djembe drum, a carved mask, and an afia bracelet. Clothing and accessories include a kente cloth, a soccer jersey, a coin purse, and a zip pouch bag. Informational items include an Emmanuel’s Gift DVD, a guide book, and a book on the 50th anniversary of independence. Other items from daily life include raw African black soap, water bags, a hand-carved wooden unity globe, a flag.
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Catherine Patterson & Mimi Caddell
Catherine Patterson is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, she is a senior with a double major in Biology and African Studies. She plans to graduate in the spring of 2011. During the summer of 2010, she traveled to Ghana with six other members of Project Heal. Project Heal is a student-led public health organization at UNC which leads service trips promoting sustainable health and development projects in rural communities of Ghana. This summer she was in Ghana for four weeks. She spent three weeks of her trip volunteering with Project Heal in Lawra, which is in the Upper West Region of Ghana. In Lawra, Project Heal built two composting pit latrines with slabs for a day care that had no access to toilets and installed a drip irrigation system at a local HIV/AIDS and nutrition clinic. However, this was not Catherine’s first time in Ghana. She spent the fall semester of her junior year studying abroad at the University of Ghana. She enjoyed her study abroad experience so much that she returned with Project Heal in the summer and plans to return again in the future.
Mimi Caddell and is currently an Environmental Science major at UNC Chapel Hill, class of 2014. She travelled to Ghana in the summer of 2011 and 2012. There in Ghana she participated in public health and educational projects with a non-profit organization called Project Heal from UNC. They focused the majority of our time in the Upper West Region of Ghana in a small town called Lawra where they worked with local officials and Peace Corps volunteer to create sustainable projects with the community. These projects included: First aid and dental workshops at the schools, painting a World Map mural, creating a drip irrigation system with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and constructing compostable pit latrines for the Eremon high school.