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September 05, 2007

Volunteering is something that is part of the goodness in human nature. It is part of the human experience to volunteer your services to another, whether it be volunteering simple knowledge or helpful actions, it is still volunteering in its most basic and innate form. Stopping to help someone who’s car has broken down on the side of the road, or teaching a child something they wouldn’t have learned otherwise, is volunteering.

It is a basic thing that anyone can do and most anyone does do, even if they don’t necessarily know it. The World Volunteer Project is the most basic form of volunteering coupled with the financial aid that is sometimes required to push volunteer ship to the next level. With plenty of room to grow, this project has unlimited potential to impact the individual as well as the community.

The first project location will be in Ghana at a little orphanage with far to many kids, a place that I have been to and a place I cannot wait to return to with more aid than just the knowledge contained in my brain. A perfect launch point for such a project, a place where you know the people are good hearted and earnestly intended. A place where you already know the financial aid they receive, will go where it needs to go.

In Ghana I will, with the help of all those who donate to the project, build an office building for this orphanage with nearly 60 children, provide mattresses for the little ones and give their teachers the opportunity to live their dreams. School is their dream, and together we can make it a reality. The older children who will soon be left to fend for them selves would much rather be sent to boarding schools with the aid that we can provide.

There are so many things that we can provided as fellow human beings to the people that live here, it just takes a little bit from a lot of people. After I have spent about six months in Ghana, if the project is receiving the response that I hope it does, I will move on to new areas and help new people. The over all goal of the project is to help where we can, but the possibilities of to how far that can go are endless.

 

 

Ghana is a country where the life expectancy of the average male is to die poor and malnourished by the age of 58. It is a country where new children are orphaned by a wide variety of circumstances. It is a country who’s residence value each day of their life as it is their last. It is a country where the children have more hope and happiness in their little hearts, than we could dream of here in the western world.

Fifty years ago Ghana declared its independence U.K. and is desperately trying to catch up to our standards of the world. The largest cities in the country are booming with economical growth in a variety of different ways creating a distinction from the westernized society and the left behind traditional villages on the outer brim. Hopes are high for this newly succeeded nation and the progress can be seen through out the region.

Real roads are slowly being built, a much better improvement from the weak but useful hole riddled dirt roads that are currently the main staple for traveling. Electricity, how ever scarce is being provided. Even with the black outs, its surly an improvement to have even the simplexes of electronic components. They are still a long ways away from the States and other European countries but they are catching up.

That’s where the issue lies, with their devotion to advancement and the western way of life, what will happen to the culture that makes Ghana such a wonderful place. Residents have expressed concern with the encroaching trends of the west that may eventually make the whole project backfire. The children here don’t rebel, the notion of respect and kindness is engrained in every individual for their life time.

What happens if in becoming like the west, they loose that essence of what makes them… Them… Most every child wants to go to school and most every adult would offer what little food they had if you visited them for a short time. If this all goes away, than what have they really accomplished.

You can see the trend on a much broader scale in the more developed parts of the country, you can see the positive and negative influences plainly every where you look. Here is to the past, and to the future, may they gain our advancements but not our disregard for human respect and compassion.

 

The term has been uttered many times before by many people. I would never adopt, I want my child to be my own flesh and blood. It isn’t that the kids don’t deserve a home, but I just want my own child.

I want a child who is responsible and has good values. I will raise my kid to be curious about everything that life has to offer, to respect others and never look down on anyone. I will give them all the tools that I can so they can succeed in everything they do.

I thought the same before I went to the Eugemot Orphanage. There is no reason to adopt a child when you can have your own, but now, after seeing these children with my own eyes. Feeling what they feel and seeing what love they have to give to anyone who will return it back. My mind has been changed, there are to many children in this world without homes or families. With a place to call their own.

There is no way that I could turn my back on them, if I do ever have children, it is a safe bet that they would be adopted. These children are all ready all that you wish yours to be, just a little older. They have learned through their rough existence more than most of us will in a life time. The zest for life that they carry with them constantly is something that most of us have left to be desired.

In the end, the decision is yours, choose wisely. Have you really considered the option, or just thrown it out the window like I used to. Visit an orphanage with these misfortune children and tell me that you still feel the same way.


Every year thousands of children are adopted, most of those children are under the age of five. Everyone wants a cute kid, someone to raise as their own. Adoption is an important thing to consider, and there are so many factors to the decision that it is a definite weight on your shoulders for some time.

The problem is that the older children are often forgotten in the sea of young choices. Why? They are to old for what reasons? Because they will remember where they came from? They have already been molded into the individual that they may be for the rest of their lives? They wont consider you their parents?

Most of the older children who are skipped over only because of their age will never have a family, and most are destined to repeat the same mistakes that their parents made which brought them there. Most of them are molded in such a good way they are already everything you hope your child to be. They have seen the other side of things, they will remember where they came from and always thank you for brining them home.

That’s right, home, where their parents live. So many of these forgotten children would gladly consider their adoptive parents as their real parents, especially when their real parents gave them up for adoption because they simply didn’t want to care for them any more.

Imagine your self as 12 years old, every prospect has passed you up for a younger child. You ask your self why? What is wrong with me, why don’t I get to leave? Then one day someone comes and picks you out of the group. Imagine that feeling of acceptance and choice, imagine what that child would feel.

The oldest children are running out of time, if they aren’t adopted soon enough, they will be sent to the world of work with little or no education. They will have no family and no way out, while the little ones gain a year on their life. Is it really right to choose a child based on their age?