At the Floor in Ghana – Board Member Trevor Franda visits Moree, Web site of New Microfinance Program
Might 19, 2024
Riding down the two-lane freeway that connects Ghana’s capital town of Accra with the ancient town of Cape Coast, Nana Obokese choices up the telephone, put it down, and tells his driving force to forestall the automobile together with the street. He has simply noticed his mom’s automobile passing the opposite path, and we pile out into the recent, humid West-African air to stay up for their arrival. His mom and sister, wearing all white clothes in party of Ramadan, step out of a yellow van clad with their beauty corporate’s “Chocho Industries” brand, thankfully greet us to make our acquaintance.
As we proceed at the street, Nana once more alerts a prevent at a roadside marketplace with produce despatched down from Niger. Recent pineapple, cassava root, and yam stretch in all instructions, and we clutch a couple of pineapple for a snack later.
We manner Cape Coast, finishing our kind of 3-hour power from Accra, and notice rows of the Ghanaian flag line the road with its inexperienced, purple, and yellow stripes and black famous person targeted within the heart, leftover from the festivities of “Ghana Month” in March, a party of nationwide independence from British colonial rule as “Gold Coast”.
