Today, Thursday, June 2nd was a travel day for the group. We embarked on a plane ride from Accra to Tamale, which is located in the northern region of Ghana. Tamale is known to many as the NGO Capitol. It is home to many national, international, and local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) or otherwise known as nonprofit organizations. These organizations are working on a variety of community and economic development projects ranging from educating rural villages, to programs that foster economic empowerment for women. Tamale has become the NGO Capitol because of the extreme poverty that exists within the northern region of Ghana. In Tamale and other northern cities, the way of life has not modernized like the southern part of Ghana. In the north, families are still living very traditional where families have to fetch their own water down at the river, honor thy chief; the men farms and the women and children sell goods in order to feed the family. The pinnacle of the traditional way of life is to live modestly, happily and with thy family.
When we arrived in Tamale, we immediately visited the chief of the village that we were going to staying in. We had to pay respect to him and get his blessing. While the traditional way of life is new to us, we appreciated the preservation of one’s culture. With modernity often comes change and that lost of thyself and they people.
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