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In the Community

  • Jaymie with Joy. Joy is an HIV positive baby that almost died and was fostered back to health by Beki & Larry McConnell from the God of Wonder Foundation.
  • Jaymie with Joy. Joy is an HIV positive baby that almost died and was fostered back to health by Beki & Larry McConnell from the God of Wonder Foundation.
  • Shangri-La Hotel in Accra where Jaymie & her dad took 2 of her students to swim.
  • Jaymie with Jeffrey & his little brother, Junior, & Richmond in the kiddy pool.
  • James Lanera starting to teach Richmond how to swim.
  • James explaing to Richmond the importance of kicking.
  • Richmond practicing kicking.
  • Jaymie with Richmond, Jeffrey, Junior & Joseph (Jeffrey & Junior's father).
  • James standing on an over pass with Jeffrey and Richmond.
  • Jaymie walking from the pool to the trotro with Richmond, Jeffrey & Junior.
  • The house of one of Jaymie's students in Abokobi.
  • Jaymie walking to school from Dad's hotel.
  • On the way to school, Jaymie stops for a picture under a nice big tree.
  • Jaymie is on her way to photocopy final exams for the school.
  • When it rains, tin barrels are rolled out to catch water. Once full, water is moved to smaller bins for storage. We use rain water to bathe, cook, clean, flush toilet & laundry.
  • Jaymie hanging out with kids in the community.
  • Jaymie & her student, Patience, smiling for a picture with some village children.
  • Small village off of the highway in Accra.
  • Picture of street side taken from the Trotro on the way to Madina from Abokobi
  • Women selling things on their head in Madina (the closest town outside of Abokobi village).
  • Jaymie buying 2 water sachets from a woman in Madina.
  • Traffic in Madina
  • Street side stores in Madina
  • Street corner in Madina
  • A section of the market in Madina
  • Jaymie's father, James Lanera (right) with Beki & Larry McConnell and thier children, Josiah & Gracie. Beki & Larry are founders of the God of Wonders Foundation: www.godofwonder.org
  • (Left to right) Jeffery (Jaymie's student), Jaymie, & Steve Hoffe (architect designer of the soon-to-be Library)
  • Jeffery, Jaymie & Steve walking through Jeffery's grandfather's farm in the back of their house.
  • Jaymie in a Trotro, Ghana's form of public transportation. A trotro is a large van that sits 20 people, conducted by a driver and his mate
  • (left to right) James Lanera, Richmond & Jaymie in back of trotro.
  • Jaymie's student, Emmanuella (right) & her little sister with Jaymie in trotro.
  • This is the main road that runs through the village of Abokobi.
  • Jaymie & her father, James, in their Sunday attire on their way to Sunday service.
  • James Lanera, Jaymie's father, dressed in his African best for Sunday mass.
  • James Lanera with lovely African woman, who was nice enough to accompany him for a picture.
  • Jaymie in front of the Abokobi Presbyterian Church in her Sunday dress.
  • James Lanera in front of Presby Church after a lovely Sunday mass.
  • Jaymie with Faustina at the family house after Sunday mass. Faustina is preparing banku, mashed up maize & cassava (type of yam)
  • A pot on the good old fire. To keep the fire hot enough, we fan it constantly with a thick woven fan.
  • Jaymie & Gillian in back of a basket of cassava & a basket of maize - before it is mashed together to make banku.
  • Jaymie & Richmond on their way into town to go see a movie after church.

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Album Description:
WHERE: Abokobi, Ghana - West Africa WHEN: July 2009 Pictures of villages and towns in and around Abokobi. Also pictures of Jaymie, as well as her father while he was visiting, spending time with her students and other children in the communities.

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