Ghana

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Ghana
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General Information

• Size 239,000 sq km
• (slightly smaller than Oregon)
• Population 22 million
• Life expectancy 56 years
• GNI per capita 380
• Independence 6 March 1957
• Administrative divisions 10 regions
• Agricultural products cocoa, rice, coffee,
  cassava, peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas
  timber
• Exports gold, cocoa, timber, tuna, bauxite,
  aluminum, manganese ore, diamonds

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Cultural Information

• Ethnic groups
• Akan 44,
• Moshi-Dagomba 16,
• Ewe 13,
• Ga 8,
• Gurma 3,
• Yoruba 1
• European and other 1.5
• Languages
• English
• Twi
• Fante
• Ewe
• Hausa

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Where we are going
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Where we are going
New Longoro
Asampu
Offuman
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Offuman
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Asampu
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New Longoro
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Peanut Sheller Project
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Charcoal Project
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Charcoal Health Impact Study
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Educational Projects
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Cassava Processing
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Other Possible Projects

• Water treatment
• Corn processing
• School lighting
• and more

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Skills Interests

• Hands-on engineering
• Public health
• Education
• Surveying, interviewing assessment
• Manufacturing and supply chain
• Rural focus
• Learning a new language

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Follow-up opportunities

• D-Lab II
• D-Lab III
• IDEAS Competition
• Thesis projects
• Summer fellowships
• Summer trip with HSPS student for continuing
  health impact study

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Beware!

• Mosquitoes
• Excited children
• Nice people

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Medaase Questions??