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This summer as I sat in front of St. Paul's Preschool in the village of Akramaman in Ghana, West Africa my heart was just overflowing with joy. The children, in uniforms now well worn, were beaming with joy. This was the graduation for five-year-olds and the parents were so excited to hear how well their children were able to speak English. Just when I thought it doesn't get any better than this!, word reached us that Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope had received a grant to build the primary school in this village. Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope just celebrated its fourth anniversary. What a glorious four years it has been. It seems like only yesterday when I was leaving for Ghana to pick a village. Now we have a preschool, a well, a playground, a health post, with construction starting on our primary school. We have helped several women start their very own businesses. We have trained teachers. We have given mothers the knowledge they need to keep their children healthy. We have worked with traditional birth attendants and provided safe motherhood birthing kits to 300 pregnant women. Now on top of all of this we received this grant from the United Thank Offering to build the primary school. This is the perfect continuation of our work for the 15 preschool students who graduated this summer and for the hundreds who will follow. That means that is just the beginning. We have been privileged to change hundreds of lives in Ghana. There are many more who need our help. We need to build a nurses' residence for the health post, allowing a nurse and midwife to staff the health post twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. We need to purchase so very, very many items in order to complete work on the health post and the primary school. Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope is planning more trips to Ghana. We plan to return next summer to build the nurses’ residence, to conduct breast cancer awareness programs, to offer reading programs for primary school age children, and hopefully to offer some teacher training. Financial support is vital for this work. You can make your tax deductible contribution to Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope by mailing your contribution to Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope and by PayPal Online donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Donors are not required to have a PayPal account to make a donation by PayPal. Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope, with no paid staff, pays a three per cent processing fee for the safety and convenience of receiving contributions through PayPal. There are no credit card and banking charges for donors using PayPal. Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope accepts donations of health care, medical, and educational supplies. By mail Ghanaian Mothers' Hope What a joy it is to change the world in one corner of the world called Ghana, making God’s world a better place for all.
Debi Frock debi@gmhope.org
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May 21, 2010
(March 2010) Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope annual friend and fund raiser was Sunday, March 14, 2010 at Rams Head Tavern, in the historic Savage Mill.
(Nov. 2009) Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope is on 
(Nov 2009) Ghanaian Mothers ’ Hope has received a $40,000 grant from UTO to build a primary school in Akramaman. 
(July 2009) The Anglican Diocese of Accra at its annual convention June 16-21 honored Ghanaian Mother’s Hope. 
(June 2008) St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Annapolis, approved a grant to Ghanaian Mothers' Hope towards the cost of constructing a health post in the village of Akramaman. 
(April 2008) GMH Supporter Wins Governor’s Volunteer Service Award.Photo: Marjie Mack, Tyler Brewer, Lt Gov Anthony Brown 
An open letter of gratitude, thanksgiving, and hope from the founder of Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope 