First, a warm welcome to G-lish. This blog is a base from which to spark creativity and discussions on making the world a better place. There is also a little about our life, work and travel in Ghana too.
We’re about to launch so amazing hand-crafted products, the likes of which have never been seen before in Ghana (and nothing quite like it outside, either)!
G-lish was so named because Godwin and I are both linguists and enjoyed the pattern in Godwin and Gayle in Ghana. Oh, and we speak G-lish, an emerging language you could say, and you are invited to learn it with us.
We do consultation on various areas you may need assistance with such as content and grant proposal writing, project management, NGO start-up and management training, and volunteer programme development.
We believe that sharing ideas, pushing the boundary of experience, cultivating an open heart, and extending a helping hand to others are among the greatest gestures we can individually and collectively make. I mean, what’s the point otherwise?
We write posts about:
- Making a difference in all its endless possibilities
- Outstanding creative artists in any media
- Writing, with a focus on blogging and social media connected with creativity and making a difference
- Chronicling our efforts in establishing and operating an NGO in Ghana
- Travel, with a focus on our travel and volunteer guides
A bit more about us:
Godwin:
“I’m Godwin and I live and work in the far north of Ghana, in Bolgatanga, where I was born and where my extended family still lives. Actually, home is now just a few minutes from the village where I was born. I’m an independent consultant and writer: co-author of the Insider’s Guide to Ghana and a contributor to the Insider’s Guide to Volunteering in Ghana.
My passion is helping people living in poverty to improve their lives. To this end, I work with individuals and small NGOs to improve their skills and capacities to lift them out of poverty. My parents were and still are poor farmers in Bawku, Ghana’s major conflict zone. They struggled to send me to school and university, but I managed to graduate with Honours from the University of Cape Coast despite having very little financial support and while also volunteering full time with NGOs around campus.
I’m very positive and enjoy showing others that they can achieve anything if they dedicate themselves to it, as I did.
Gayle and I are working on establishing a special project very close to my home and heart here in Bolgatanga.
Football is my main passion outside of work and I am a huge Barcelona fan and so of course my favourite football player is Lionel Messe. Feel free to debate football with me here or by email. For that and anything else you can contact me at godwin@g-lish.org”
Gayle:
“I live and work with Godwin in Bolgatanga. I’m a writer and NGO manager working with non-profit organisations and contributing to the online media organisation Global Voices Online. I co-authored both the Insider’s Travel and Volunteering guides with Godwin. It’s such a kick to be able to say I’m a paid writer! I also manage and build blog content for other NGOs part time while working for YPWC in Ghana. And, of course, I blog regularly both here and at This is Ghana: http://gisforghana.blogspot.com
Before moving to Bolga in February 2009, I worked with Women in Progress/Global Mamas in Cape Coast between June 2007 and January 2009. Before that I worked as a consultant for Traidcraft (www.traidcraft.org.uk) in South East Asia between July 2006 and May 2007 in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. This gave me a good yardstick against which to compare the Ghana fair trade experience. Before that I first came to Ghana to volunteer for Women in Progress and a primary school in Kumasi between July 2005-July 2006. That’s when I caught the Ghana bug—literally (malaria) and metaphorically.
During the decade before all of this I worked for several Japanese governmental and private companies in Sydney as a researcher and marketing manager. In fact, my major passion until first coming to Ghana to volunteer was Japanese language and modern art and design.
At this blog we explore all of our passions as the fancy takes us, but we will focus principally on the five areas outlined above.
I love writing and I find I simply can’t function if I don’t write regularly. I’m happiest with pen and paper, but it seems one must engage with machines to make any of this catch on. I use about five notebooks at any given time and I’m often found scrambling out from the mosquito net in the dead of night to scribble ideas and inspiration down before I lose them in my dreams—and I do lose ideas if I don’t write them down promptly. Incidentally, these ideas have been the easiest to write into a full piece—they almost write themselves after I get that kernel down—and have almost always become the most popular posts.
I’m still learning that one can’t do everything and make a meaningful contribution. There’s so much more I want to do, but one must choose one’s causes and focus one’s energy.
To that end, we produced both the Insider’s Guides to Ghana and Volunteering. We felt this is where our talent, experience and passion intersected. And we’re now establishing what we believe is a ground-breaking project here in Bolgatanga that will change lives on many, many levels. Watch this space. Read our posts. If you want to stay up to date you can subscribe by clicking on the orange icon on the front page. That will deliver stories, posts and updates into your inbox as we publish them.”
Over and out,
The G-team.
Bolgatanga,
Upper East Region
Ghana
West Africa
The Earth,
In a Galaxy not too far away
Next to the galaxy that’s a little further away
Tip: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will put you on the right track, anyway, and expand your notion of intergalactic travel. And then you can read The Insider’s Guide to Ghana when you find Earth. Easy. See you soon.
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