<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.5.1" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Shyam's Ghanaian Summer...and More</title>
	<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam</link>
	<description>Life, development, whatever</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:01:25 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>The Final Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I fly out of Ghana. It’s been an exciting time. In the past posts I have described the project and my work, my embarrassing (but hopefully entertaining) dance moves, and some insights I have had on development.
I’d like to conclude this blog though, with a story of an inspirational person that I met. Check [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/the-final-post/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A Leadership Program in Ghana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Religion is BIG in Ghana. Christianity dominates the south while Islam the north, and traditional religions seem to be present in most of rural Ghana. I’ve had the most interactions with Christians though and regardless of the denomination, most people are less than excited about missing their Sunday service. Church for them is not only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/a-leadership-program-in-ghana/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>An analysis of my activities in Ghana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can see from my last few posts, I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on what I did this summer and what impacts they are actually having in Ghana and on the project I worked on. I was trying to organize everything in words but that wasn’t quite working so here it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/an-analysis-of-my-activities-in-ghana/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ghana and Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Ghana faces many challenges that are apparent from looking around, talking to people, and reading the newspaper. Some of these are:
 

lack of capital and business development support for entrepreneurs, lack of foreign investment
an education system that lacks funding and is unable to foster independent thinking and allow for practical applications of the knowledge learnt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/ghana-and-development/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The end nears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/the-end-nears/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Please, I beg you – Take on this Challenge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drinking aside, our three most important uses of water seem to be bathing, washing clothes, and flushing the toilet. As well, we find one thing at the root of our daily activities: electricity.
For the last three weeks of being in Accra, both water and electricity have been difficult to have at the same time i.e. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/please-i-beg-you-%e2%80%93-take-on-this-challenge/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Eyh! Where have you been?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I stayed with Afeti Godsway (on left in blue shirt) for two days in Dabala where he works at the eCARE business centre. This is his family.
So it’s time for another update. On Sunday, July 20th, after my last two field visits in Dabala and Dodze (both in the Volta region but nowhere close to Mt. Afejeto – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/eyh-where-have-you-been/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Where&#8217;s Dorothy in all this?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The connection to Dorothy, or the beneficiary, that is a person that most needs it - someone that is perhaps in a cycle of poverty, or lacking opportunity, or swimming in a pool of vulnerability - is hard to see in this project because it is two steps removed. As a result I am not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/wheres-dorothy-in-all-this/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Victories, losses and upcoming battles in the eCARE world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The timing of this placement with the eCARE project is excellent simply because the challenges (and therefore opportunities) are enormous!
In my previous posts, I explained the project as one that supports entrepreneurs in running a successful rural business centre. To expand further, the services that each entrepreneur can choose to provide include fixed-line telephone services, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/victories-losses-and-upcoming-battles-in-the-ecare-world/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So let&#8217;s talk about play&#8230;
 
 
Elmina Castle, used by the Portuguese, Dutch and British as a centre of trade for gold and slaves, among other things, was cool but grim. Most of all, it was a weekend to relax - and Elmina certainly lent itself to that.

The view from Elmina

The view of Elmina castle
The Boti Falls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/index.php/http:/www.uwo.ewb.ca/shyam/%page%/play/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
