Posts Tagged ‘Humanist Service Corps’
Welcome home HA: Ghana volunteers
It is with a blend of gratitude, regret, and excitement that we extend an early welcome home to our Humanist Action: Ghana (HA: Ghana) Ghana volunteers.
Read MoreHumanist Action: Ghana in Ghana: Volunteer Chronicles (part 4)
Chiemi Maloy is a Humanist Action: Ghana volunteer who has traveled to Ghana for the first time as part of a year-long service commitment in the town of Cape Coast. This is her second entry in this blog series. (Click here for her first installment.) One of the best and worst parts of being away…
Read More400 Years- An Invitation to Mourn, Celebrate, and Imagine
In this blog, former HA: Ghana Ghana volunteer Christian Hayden shares his thoughts on the Year of Return. The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major campaign inviting the worldwide African Diaspora to return to Ghana. The year chosen commemorates 400 years since the first enslaved African arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. A few historians…
Read MoreHumanist Action: Ghana in Ghana: Volunteer Chronicles (part 3)
This article is part of a series written by FBB volunteers detailing their experiences in the Humanist Action: Ghana. The opinions expressed in this article may not necessarily express those of Foundation Beyond Belief as a whole, its staff, or donors. Elroy Leday is a Humanist Action: Ghana volunteer who has traveled to Ghana for the…
Read MoreHumanist Action: Ghana in Ghana: Volunteer Chronicles (part 2)
This article is part of a series written by FBB volunteers detailing their experiences in the Humanist Action: Ghana. The opinions expressed in this article may not necessarily express those of Foundation Beyond Belief as a whole, its staff, or donors. August 2019. On June 27th, I left Salt Lake City with three suitcases and a…
Read MoreHumanist Action: Ghana in Ghana: Volunteer Chronicles (part 1)
This article is part of a series written by FBB volunteers detailing their experiences in the Humanist Action: Ghana. The opinions expressed in this article may not necessarily express those of Foundation Beyond Belief as a whole, its staff, or donors. August 2019. How do I sum up my last three weeks? Well, for starters, I…
Read MoreGuest blog: In Service, be as Selfish as Possible
There is a cautionary tale that frequently surfaces in discussions about international aid. Women from a particular village walk miles to the river to do laundry despite the donation of a laundry trough circling the village’s water tank. The organization that donated the washing station failed to realize that laundry time serves another function: women-only…
Read MoreAnnouncement: Humanist Action: Ghana accepting applications
Are you ready to deepen your humanism through international service? The Humanist Action: Ghana (HA: Ghana) is now accepting applications for the 2019-2020 volunteering commitment. 2019-2020 volunteers will be the first HA: Ghana group to support grassroots human rights organizations working in the Central Region as well as keep supporting our partner organizations in the Northern Region…
Read MoreDeveloping HA: Ghana’s Principles of Service
At the end of 2014, I wrote the article below for American Atheist magazine. It was the fifth piece in a series about Pathfinders Project, the year-long global service and research trip intended as the first step toward the Humanist Action: Ghana. I submitted the first four articles to the magazine from the field as…
Read MoreFBB joins in historic Women’s Marches
On January 21, 2017, millions of women and men marched across the United States and the world in an inspiring act of solidarity. In the words of the march organizers on their Facebook page, "In the spirit of democracy and in honor of the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we…
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