Today has been the sort of day I need more of in Ghana!
It started off with a talk from Kathy Knowles - a Canadian who started (by accident) a literacy and library movement by reading books to neighbourhood kids under a tree in her garden 25 years ago, and has now flourished to eight libraries in the greater Accra region
Full details are on their website http://www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca/ - I can imagine visiting one of the libraries in the near future
Some of the many books published by the Osu Children's Library Fund
colourful batik
Then we went for lunch to a recent discovery that Lon and I made - Chez Clarisse - a local restaurant with a limited menu of good food - and shared a portion of grilled tilapia and fried plantain - yum
I'm sure Accra has more for us to discover behind closed gates..
It started off with a talk from Kathy Knowles - a Canadian who started (by accident) a literacy and library movement by reading books to neighbourhood kids under a tree in her garden 25 years ago, and has now flourished to eight libraries in the greater Accra region
Full details are on their website http://www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca/ - I can imagine visiting one of the libraries in the near future
This is Joanna - Kathy's then part-time housekeeper who has flourished into a mama librarian
Then Paola and I headed to Nayak a batik cloth shop I visited last in 2011...and have been meaning to return to since we got back
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| wall of BUTTONS! |
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| The linen I bought |
1 comment:
What a great day! Looks and sounds terrific. I had no idea there was batik in Ghana. I agree that these are ideal expat type days and visiting the library, perhaps getting involved, will give you even more local contact.
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