At the vocational center guest house with the kitchen staff. They fed us fantastic Ghanaian and western food. The smaller woman is the head cook, Gladys. An amazingly sweet woman who really wanted to make sure we were comfortable and enjoying our stay. What a blessing she was to us.




These girls are some of the freed slaves of the priests that are at the vocational center. They can take a short 3 month course or a full 2 year course in sewing, making soap, weaving, hair dressing, etc. When they graduate there is a ceremony and they are provided with everything they need to start their business back in the community. They learn more than one thing so that if their primary business is slow, they can be working on something else to sell. Once they are back in their community there is follow up and counselors available to them.

This man is weaving a traditional and very beautiful Ghanaian cloth called Kente cloth. He uses both hands and feet to do the weaving. It was amazing to see how fast he could move.