Recently Kwame Evans sent me a picture of the carwash building in town. To my great surprise the wall around it is almost completed and the building is…roofed! Or so it seems. Look for yourself. The project developer is incredible, thank you guys!
Visit by Salvation Army
From tuesday until thursday this week the Clear Mind team in Ghana received a big delegation of the Salvation Army. Major Isac, who is our contactman,
The two oldest of the AA
The old man is in his ninetees. He joined the AA in 2017. Until very recently, until when his wife died, he went out to farm every day. Now his kids look after him and Clear Mind gave him some rabbits to rear which keeps him busy. Continue reading “The two oldest of the AA”
A Carwash on the Way
What give pleasure? What can make work pleasurable? The presence of water. What work with water can be done in town? Yes, a laundry, or purifying and bottling water in a small factory. Maybe. But a carwash! Yes!
To have a Farm!
How long did we think about this? Dream about this? Plan about having a farm where our people could recover, find work, be isolated from the addictive town atmosphere for a while?
David the Giant
Eleven long years David had worked in England with the plan of saving money towards owning a hotel in Accra. When finally three years ago he returned to Ghana,
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Joe from Kumasi
Joe had ever increasing family problems because of his drinking which was way out of control. His wife felt defeated and the children helpless. All efforts to stop the drink failed. Eventually Joe heard from Clear Mind in Nkoranza.
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Bridget’s Book
Bridget wrote her book, an autobiography called “My Name is Bridget”, which is for sale at bol.com, (or with Ineke who helped her to write it). But the book shown in the photograph
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From Client to Enabler
To be able to say: “I am Mr. Fosu from Tanobuase. I overcame my addiction and now i am free. Let me tell you my story…”, is what enables many others. We have a number of enablers in our team: PaaKwasi, Joe, Fosu, Richard, David and more. They no longer hide their name, they are proud of it.
Someone Else follows your Footsteps
it seems to be some kind of law that if someone kicks off succesfully, someone else soon follows in his footsteps. Some of our old clients help coaching new clients, which is a very succesful way of providing care because nothing replaces the wisdom gained by experience.