Braiding Ellie's hair kept the girls entertained for a while!
Sunday, 3 February 2013
2nd-3rd Feb briefing
This weekend we had our first overnight get together in order to plan for Ghana, and to get to know each other better, in Preston. We arrived, and started off discussing fundraising (we all seem to be doing well!!), and then started on some silly games, and made our own coats of armour.
We spent a long time discussing our plans for our trip to Ghana, especially planning our week of volunteering. It was very exciting, as it now seems to really be happening!
We are going to spent 2 weeks in Ghana. On landing in Accra, Ghana's capital we will be spending nights at the Ghana Girlguiding centre, and will hopefully meet some Ghanaian Guides and Brownies. We are going to spend time exploring the city- visiting markets, and possibly partaking in a drumming workshop. Accra is s...uch a different place to the UK- we probably couldn't be more immersed in a different culture.
We are then going to drive to Kumasi, north of Accra- possibly stopping off to explore the tropical rainforest on a high walk way! We will stay here for a week, and will have the amazing opportunity to work in an orphanage, educating the children about health, hygiene and basic first aid, as well as organising lots of fun activities, including a mini-Olympics. We will also have the opportunity to explore Kumasi.
We will head south again afterwards, and have the chance to visit a slave castle, beaches, markets in Accra or might pay a visit to Cape Coast.
We spent a lot of time planning activities to do with the children, as well as brainstorming songs and games to teach them. We also made friendship bracelets to give to the Guides in Accra.
We had a really fun evening, going out for dinner, and ended up plaiting Ellie's immensely long hair, and doing Yoga in Leah and Nat's room!
This morning we emailed Pastor Kofi, who runs the orphanage, letting him know our plans and also wrote our group charter. We also wrote and briefed our parents of our exciting trip.
The weekend was really good fun, and was a great way to get to know everyone better- and we have become 'Family Ghana'! Now it's just over 6 months until our exciting adventure begins!
Laura
We spent a long time discussing our plans for our trip to Ghana, especially planning our week of volunteering. It was very exciting, as it now seems to really be happening!
We are going to spent 2 weeks in Ghana. On landing in Accra, Ghana's capital we will be spending nights at the Ghana Girlguiding centre, and will hopefully meet some Ghanaian Guides and Brownies. We are going to spend time exploring the city- visiting markets, and possibly partaking in a drumming workshop. Accra is s...uch a different place to the UK- we probably couldn't be more immersed in a different culture.
We are then going to drive to Kumasi, north of Accra- possibly stopping off to explore the tropical rainforest on a high walk way! We will stay here for a week, and will have the amazing opportunity to work in an orphanage, educating the children about health, hygiene and basic first aid, as well as organising lots of fun activities, including a mini-Olympics. We will also have the opportunity to explore Kumasi.
We will head south again afterwards, and have the chance to visit a slave castle, beaches, markets in Accra or might pay a visit to Cape Coast.
We spent a lot of time planning activities to do with the children, as well as brainstorming songs and games to teach them. We also made friendship bracelets to give to the Guides in Accra.
We had a really fun evening, going out for dinner, and ended up plaiting Ellie's immensely long hair, and doing Yoga in Leah and Nat's room!
This morning we emailed Pastor Kofi, who runs the orphanage, letting him know our plans and also wrote our group charter. We also wrote and briefed our parents of our exciting trip.
The weekend was really good fun, and was a great way to get to know everyone better- and we have become 'Family Ghana'! Now it's just over 6 months until our exciting adventure begins!
Laura
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Second Meet..
After an intresting start looking at everybody's presentations, we made a plan for the meeting! We decided to make a quiz to help with everbody's fundraising, write a letter template to give us a good idea of how to start writing to different companies and decide on kit colour (which is still in process!) and badge design.
We discussed some potential dates for the trip. End of July to the beggining of August seemed highly likely. Beckie told us that we will be staying at the Girlguiding training centre in Accra, and we might be able to meet some Scotish Senior Section members who travle to Ghana every 2 years! This will be useful as they can help us acclimatize.
We talked about what we would be doing out there, the presentations that the team gave really helped us see what there was out there that we could do. we are thinking of working with guides in Ghana to give workshops, possibly about personal hygiene this will give them a variaty from craft and games.
We then set about looking at possible colours for our team kit, designing the badge. We havn't yet made a decision but the favourite colours seem to be pink, green and purple.
You can see are ideas for the badge below.
Nat & Claire
We discussed some potential dates for the trip. End of July to the beggining of August seemed highly likely. Beckie told us that we will be staying at the Girlguiding training centre in Accra, and we might be able to meet some Scotish Senior Section members who travle to Ghana every 2 years! This will be useful as they can help us acclimatize.
We talked about what we would be doing out there, the presentations that the team gave really helped us see what there was out there that we could do. we are thinking of working with guides in Ghana to give workshops, possibly about personal hygiene this will give them a variaty from craft and games.
We then set about looking at possible colours for our team kit, designing the badge. We havn't yet made a decision but the favourite colours seem to be pink, green and purple.
You can see are ideas for the badge below.
Nat & Claire
Saturday, 27 October 2012
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Welcome
Hi, we are a group of 13 Girlguiding UK members who have been selected to take part in the North West region trip to Ghana in 2013. The group consists of 3 leaders and 10 girls (introductions to follow).
Keep up-to-date with our blog to find out more about the planning of our trip and how our fundraising is going.
Keep up-to-date with our blog to find out more about the planning of our trip and how our fundraising is going.
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