From Hagerstown Maryland-
Hagerstown residents work to improve life in Ghana
Groups in Western Maryland have been working to improve life in Ghana in West Africa.
In Akramaman, a village about 2 1/2 hours by car from Accra, the capital, has a new playground which was funded by the Westminster Rotary Club. A new preschool also has a summer literacy program.
Construction on a health outpost was slated to start in July. It will include living quarters for nursing staff.
Bruce Neumann is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Hagerstown. He's leading a team of nine that will spend a week getting the health outpost up and running.
A 2004 trip by the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland to Ghana to share a Christian leadership program called Cursillo was the start of the partnership. Neumann was a member of that team.
Debi Frock of Westminster was so moved by the need of Akramaman that in 2005, she started Ghanaian Mothers' Hope Inc. (GMH), a nonprofit foundation. Neumann and his wife, the Rev. Rebekah Neumann, are on the GMH board of directors.
Frock said she got involved because of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce poverty and related issues.
"As a community, we can do a lot," Frock said. "As individuals, it's way too hard."
Efforts range from collecting pennies to offering storage space for donated items to be shipped, Frock said.
She pointed out that children in one parish collected $800 in pennies. Combined with pennies from other churches, the Maryland Diocese raised $15,000.
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