Cleveland

Ready to fly to NY Kennedy

Arrived in JFK

Plane to Accra

Ready to go

Still waiting for Cameroon visa

-56 outside

Chicken was good

Browny

Could see stars really good

Descending to Accra

In Accra

Took bags to hotel. The Urbano Hotel in Accra

Rebooking flights and hotels because of not having my visa for Cameroon yet

Toured a slave castel

Queen Elizabeth and prince charles slept in this bed

Plantane, cooked over open fire

Bought camel skin hat from this guy. Paid 450 cc

Ate chicken and beef from skewers, from stand in street.

Checked in hotel, had issue I with getting towels. No accountability in Africa.

People are mostly happy and content even if they are poor.

Veiw from hotel room

National Art Museum

Visited Ghana national art museum.

National Art Museum

Lunch. Most expensive restaurant in Ghana $15 per meal

Market

Visited open Market in Accra

Eric wanted to buy glass beads from women and she said she doesn’t have any

Largest open market in Africa

Annual home coming festival

Annual parade was going on. Just sat down and observed bypassers from parade

Everyone is happy, especially the poor.

Just walking thru and observing you would not think this is a poor community.

Women do all the work and are honest.

They clean good. House may look shabby but floors walkways and even the road by the house is spotless. Everything is cleaned by the women.

All taxi drivers are men

Airport in Accra

Flying with Africa world airlines

Accra

Beautiful fields in northern part of Ghana

Drove 3 hrs from Tamale to Bolga

Hotle

Round hotel

Eating supper and trying to send money to Uganda

Good supper

Guine fowl

Very good breakfast

Rooms

Outside of hotel

Went to honorables home. This is where Eric lived for 2 years

Fall Army worm in corn

Honorable’s fish pond

New house in progress at Honorables

Beautiful scenery

Raising donkeys for a living

Honorable at the chief house

Sitting with chief in his palace

Cheif

Jonas, trustworthy

Patience

Makes woven baskets that Eric is working on selling in the USA

Happy group of children

Dam

Went to Honorable in Eric’s community. Took a moto and traveled around visiting people and touring the country.

Ate breakfast and then worked on 1 acre plan till noon. Going to Eric’s community now to get some data. Want to find out what the actual cost is to feed a family.

Honorable in his traditional clothing that they use for funerals

From Honorables roof top

Pig pen

At Suzzies store

Suzzies store

Saw one of these with about 7 donkeys in the back

Honorable gave us a guinea fowl as a gift

Had another awesome day.

Spend the morning discussing how next steps could look like.

Went to Honorable and Suzzie to get info on what costs are.

Sat around kitchen table with Honorable and another member of the community and talked about family, politics, and community.

Awesome hardworking people.

Breakfast

Yellow yellow that took us to ATM

Driving to Tamale

Propeller plane at Tamale

Selling fish in Accra

Ate supper here

Had chicken, avocado salad, plantain

One of the best meals one of Eric’s best restaurants in the world. Located behind a large wall of a store on dirt road with plastic chairs and table

Bought a shirt from this guy

Global Mamas

Sunglasses

This glass keeps people from climbing the wall

Ate some wraps. Gave some food to 2 boys that were watching us eat. Was obvious that they wanted money not food

In lounge waiting on flight

Ready to board

Accra

Layover I n Narobie Kenya

Landing in Entebbe Uganda

Going to Hotel

Driver is on right side

Veiw from Hotel.

Lake Victoria

First sundowner

Gin tonic

Sunset over lake Victoria

Met 2 couples from Pittsburgh after supper

Met Peter our driver for the next week

Van wouldn’t start. Was just mold on the battery

Traveling to Masindi

Had a community meeting in Masindi, was amazing where they are at.

Secretary and Boniface (Cattle Clinic Uganda) founder

Evelin, vice chair of the community.

She was very energetic and everyone respects and likes her

Evelyn’s farm

Makes her own fertilizer to spray

Goat pen

Uses the manure to get compost

Cow manure to make fertilizer

Cabbage field

Raised bed with new cabbages started

Pig pen

Dog pen, raised so she can capture manure

Water tower

House

Maze

Goats

Leadership group of the community

Goat for supper

Hotel

Awesome lock

Hauling water

At John’s place

Planning peanuts

John’s home

Group meeting at John’s

John’s house

Neighbor children

Vice chair of group

Supper

Breakfast of egg omelets and pineapple

Sour fruit from Peter

Entering Murchison Park

Baboons

Falls on Nile River

Most powerful falls in the world

Park entrance

Nile river

Hippos in Nile

Hippos

Buck

Buying bananas on side of the road

Supper

Maize and veggie soup

Ovocoda juice

At BAI

Kitchen

Entrance

Water tower

Building new builsing

Tilmors building

Flextur table

Ate meal with Boniface’s family

Turkey in the restaurant

Most cost effective toilet

Entrance to BAI

Stopped in at BIA for some pictures for Brent

Went Godfrey’s home farm

Hauling a thresher

Godfrey’s moms chickens

In 6 month with a loan of 500k she made a profit of slightly over 2 mil.

Some larger layers that Godfrey’s mom kept from first batch of chickens

Tractor that the government donated to the organization

Keeping all the water possible

Cough dough that processes in the green house and they use the gases to cook

Stove run off of cough manure

Coffee

Farm

Church

Drying peanuts and maze

Plowing with tractor

Org chart for the company

Meeting with leaders

Served us lunch of rice and chicken

He made 300k profit in 6 month with 500k loan

Godfrey’s mother

Leadership team

Owen on Godfrey’s home farm

Very nice hotel room

Had hot water and hand towels

Supper

Church house

Went to far

Got thru this with van

Got flat with his one

His office

Fig tree

School house

Bore whole

Shea ready to be cooked and boiled

Cooking shea

Finished shea

Museum

Store

Medical center

Lunch

Beautiful scenery

Orange and passion fruit

Speed bumps

Another flat

Office for the night

Breakfast

Airport training facility

2 acres that Lena Owns

Outhouse going up

Some fruit

Nice home

Going to town

Pool at hotel

Goat for supper

Sunset from hotel

Lunch in Lira

Driving to Gulu

At Jo Jos

Crew from Wet drilling

Supper with Brent

Watoto Church

Arrived at John’s

Cooking room. Chopped some wood for John’s wife

Washing dishes

John’s grandkids, Thomas and Machelle

Everyone like candy

New house started

Toilet

Piggery

Delicious supper of eggs maize and beans

Bed

Breakfast

Wash line

Drying rack

Field

John planted these trees to help grow back forest

Ate some maize that the workers were eating

Road to field

Paths

2 of John’s wives

Ovocado tree

Buddies

Skower

Bricks ready for building

Pigs

John’s office in town

Loan money ready to be returned to oxen clinic

Talking with drunk farmer. Bought me a coke

Some more of John’s family

Another one of John’s wives houses

She makes all of these designs herself

Lunch

Youth talking and having fun

River that flows into the Nile

John and our driver

Member of the group. Is lame from a vehicle accident that happened during Covid. Broke his pelvis in 5 places

In for a drink

Michelle is ornery

Supper, goat rice maize cabbage

John was ironing his suits

Breakfast with Joel. John had meeting

Walked out the vice chairs field where she was planting ground nuts

Boss showing me how

Joel

Nice home

Candy is always a winner

Plowing nice furrows with large oxen

Cooking a special meal before I leave

Joel

Ornery goat

Meal before leaving

Joel and Boniface

On the way to Boniface’s shop

Welder

Forge

Making oxen eveners

Boniface’s 9 acre farm that he just bought

Banana

Stopped for a drink

Going to Gulu to meet Peter

Ready for supper with Boniface and \240BAI family

Large tilopia

Nice room at BAI

Kitchen

Living room

Very nice bathroom

Had a great evening with Fred and Steven

Nice sunrise, just left BAI

Bought some Rolex from here

Fishermen

Working in mud

Fisherman in Nile

Nile

4 workers at source of nile

Source of the Nile

Kampala

Armed guards at gas station

Supper at hotel

Awesome breakfast

Security check before driving to airport

Dog smell checking all bags before going instead

Slower than ever

Went thru 4 security check points to get to gate

Boarding

Collins from Uganda

Flight was delayed to Accra so they got us a hotel in Nairobi for the night.

Tarek from South Africa

Finally at the hotel at 10 after arriving at airport at 7

Long day

Waiting in line at Nairobi airport

Boarding mess

Clay pot got smashed in check in bag

Hotel in Accra

Good supper with 2 buddies. Eric wasn’t feeling good and is at medical clinic

Breakfast

Met with Eric’s buddy Bill and went to beach for supper

Couple proposed here

Ready to leave for airport

Sitting in lounge waiting on flight

Boarding

Landing in JFK

taking off for CLE