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Hotel Belle-vue Lome

Quartier Kodjoviakope Lome, Togo

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Dying to be mothers

A travel blog entry by faisal_abroad

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... several hours of no result they decided to take her to the hospital. By then the mother’s fate was sealed. These cases can easily be prevented had the TBA’s made timely referrals and had basic medical understanding.

Care Net Ghana (CNG) in partnership with Ghana Health Service (GHS), equivalent to the ministry of health and Anesvad, are trying to educate and train TBA’s in the community to help prevent these cases and improve the health of ...

Last full day in Togo

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... its way through the traffic which parted in a haphazard way to let it through. A few minutes later we can to the scene of an accident. A motorcycle lay mangled on its side on the grass just off the street; I couldn’t see any other damaged vehicle. Through the gathered crowd, I could make out a body laid out on the ground and paramedics from the ambulance maneuvering a stretcher. That’s all I saw before we moved on. Hopefully seeing that will cause ...

First full day in Lomé

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... and so on.

I had a very light lunch since I haven't been getting any exercise to speak of, and continued virtual office work. A little after 14:00 I started walking over to a mini-market about half a mile from the hotel. The streets were full of motorcycles and vehicles of various descriptions all belching streams of exhaust. The streets were sandy and in places full of refuse. There was quite a variety of commerce going on: the ubiquitous African ...

Leaving Kinshasa

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... at some speed to avoid bogging down.

The night air was heavy with humidity, and smoke from fires. There were rarely any working street lights once away from the center of Kigali, so the road was only dimly lit by the stabbing of headlights that swung wildly around as the few drivers on the road at that hour dodged potholes. Nighttime African cities sometimes remind me of a sort of post-Apocalyptic movie.

Finally arrived at the airport, we paid ...

Kolloquium und Kulturschock

A travel blog entry by carolineghana

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... sehen könnt,
ist eine Grenze hier etwas anders. Für uns war der Übergang via
Visum kein Problem. Es dauerte halt nur alles seine Zeit und ein paar
Nerven. Die Polizei an der Grenze ist prinzipiell mufflig. Selbst mit
den größten Bemühungen den Damen und Herren dort ein Lächeln auf
die Lippen zu zaubern, musst ich kläglich scheitern. Aber viel
schlechter haben es trotzdem die Ghanaer die über die Grenze
wollen.Die müssen nämlich den Polizisten schmieren. Tun sie ...