An update from Anansi founder Kathryn Roe: Greetings from Ghana. This report is an attempt to bring those of you who have been involved in our (as Bob McDonnell calls it) Ambitious Project up to date. I’ve been here in Mpeasem, Cape Coast, Ghana now for about a month and one half. Here is what […]
Christine Myers, a longtime friend of Anansi, recently visited Ghana and helped tutor in the Host & Teach workshops held for Anansi students. She wrote and shared the following essay about her experience. Thank you, Christine, for your energy, time, enthusiasm and generosity for Anansi Education and all our students. Ghanaian women in head […]
“Wie war’s in Ghana?” (written for German readers with little familiarity with Ghana) After my four-week stay in Ghana in December 2021, this short, friendly question was one I frequently heard. Answering briefly is, however, not easy. This would perhaps be my short answer: I encountered people who were for the most part dignified […]
Bob McDonnell is a long-time Anansi sponsor and supporter. He recently visited Ghana with a new friend to Anansi, Linda. He wrote this summary of his visit. Ghana, August 27-September 8, 2019 Last month I enjoyed a marvelous, deeply enjoyable trip to Ghana and Anansi Education. It fell naturally into three parts—before the Anansi academic […]
Matthew Wilkinson is an amazing seventeen year old American high school student who is spending this school year in Ghana via the YES international exchange student program. Just recently Matthew’s family moved to Bellingham. He and the other five YES students in Ghana helped the Anansi staff with their home visits for their next year student selection. […]
The following items will be for sale at the Anansi 14th Annual Auction to be held at the Mt. Baker Theater on May 12, 2018 beginning at 5:30 p.m. To buy on line or for more information about these items contact roekathryn@gmail.com before May 10. Yacouba Dancing Figures These small brightly dressed and colored figures are […]
Live Auction: The following items will be auctioned off on May 12th at the 14th Annual Anansi Auction to be held at the Mt. Baker Theater in Bellingham, WA beginning at 5:30. Proxy bids may be emailed to: roekathryn@gmail.com at least two days before the auction. Cote d’Ivoire Hippo. This lovely carved hippo, made from […]
Last year Anansi supporter Megan Galley came to visit Ghana. During her time there, she took video footage and the result is this video. Enjoy!
This week Mohammed and Anansi volunteer Megan Galley traveled to the village of Kruwa to do home visits for a group of students who have requested scholarships. These photos of potential students’ homes give you a picture of life in a small village in Ghana and show living conditions similar to that of most of […]
Updated Note 10/24/16: Several of these students were generously sponsored just before school started and they will be able to attend high school starting in the 2016-2017 school year. The other students will not be able to attend high school this year. They will enter the Anansi scholarship pool again next fall with the hopes […]