Children's Hospital Boston in Ghana

Perspective

Minimum wage in Ghana is 37cents per day. $900 per year.

A first year nurse makes $400 per month. $4,800 per year.

A first year doctor makes $700 per month. $8,400 per year.

Healthcare coverage costs $20 per year.

Ghana population = 21 million.

Average life expectancy = 56 years.

Only ½ of the Ghanian people are able to afford the healthcare cost.

Countless mothers leave their newborn babies at the hospital because they can not pay the $20.

Today at the orphanage there were 90 children, the youngest baby was 4 days old.

New Photos from Hospital Clinic, Schools & Orphanages

 

 

 

 

School Days

Ghana is one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. The cost of a school uniform at the Trede School is six dollars. Today a group of us traveled to the Trede school to deliver donated books and supplies. Several of the children were not dressed in the traditional green uniforms, their families can not afford the annual cost……six dollars.

 

With each passing day the sights, sounds and smells become stronger and harder to understand. When we arrived at the school a swarm of green uniforms engulfed us – grabbing onto us and literally diving for copies of used books. The school rooms were bare, a chalkboard, wooden benches and desks – that was it. The Trede school children were SO grateful for the supplies, the hope on their faces was palpable. A picture says a thousands words……

 

Sara