Coastal visits

Jessie and I made a road trip to Cape Coast. While there, we made contact with a representative of the Center for Popular Education and Human Rights Ghana (CPEHRG), one of the few organizations in the country that addresses LGBT issues.
(http://www.geocities.com/popeducation/AIMS) We gave them condoms and individual lubricant packets and antibiotics for a clinic.

Thanks to the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (http://www.aidsprevention.org/), and PjurUSA (http://www.pjurusa.com/) for their very generous donations of supplies to distribute.


While in Cape Coast, Jessie and I went to the beach, and climbed to a hilltop castle.









Our friend Maxwell came to greet us one afternoon. We met Maxwell last year on the day before the total solar eclipse.

Abongo is another person I met last year. He has a craft shop in the Cape Coast castle. He has very prominent tribal marks, indicating he is from the far north. Many are now beginning to discourage this traditional scaring and younger people tend not to like marks that they have.

I am constantly amazed by the African brain. People's brains retain everything. People I met only briefly a year ago instantly remember me and the fine details of our original encounter. Building relationships with others is critical to life here, and every person encountered is a person remembered.