Tagged Ghana

OP-ED Israeli development aid is a win for Africa, Israel and American Jews

A look inside the Project Ten Volunteer center of The Jewish Agency for Israel. (Courtesy of Shimon Mercer-Wood)
February 17, 2017 / Shimon Mercer-Wood, JTA

  (JTA) — Late last month, on the eve of Black History Month, a delegation of African-American journalists landed in Ghana to cover international development projects and the impact those projects are making in that West African country. This in itself is nothing out of the ordinary. Africa in… Read more »

Op-Ed: For the New Year, renew the commitment to end global hunger
August 31, 2012 / Ruth Messinger, JTA

NEW YORK (JTA) — In July I traveled to Ghana with 17 American rabbis. We spent 12 days constructing the walls of a school compound in partnership with a local Ghanian community ravaged by hunger, poverty and labor exploitation. More important than our efforts to mix cement and schlep… Read more »