First week of outreaches

This week has been pretty busy with an outreach each day! My "outreach team" for the week has been both Nicoles, and Alex and we had a really great time traveling to four communities in the Eastern and Volta regions of Ghana.

On Monday we went to Asubone Rails, where the outreach took place in a church. The trip was pretty long (about 3 hours each way) and it rained on the way back - which was great because there was way less dust! Ernest, an optometrist with Unite For Sight, kept us pretty entertained on the way back with lots of singing. We got a little taste of Ghanaian pop music.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were pretty similar - though not quite as much rain. Pretty long drives to Bleamazado, Krobo Odumase, and Dagbamate, and all really great times. I've become pretty great at sleeping in a car that continuously goes over speed bumps. I also finished Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food. I think I'll be getting a ton of reading done here!

Tuesday was especially great because I got to start interviewing participants for my research project. Only 4 participants from last year showed up to the screening, so I didn't do too many, but the 4 I did conduct went pretty well, I think!