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Month: June 2012

Orientation Day 1: Bonding, Learning, Scavengering, & Dancing!

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Yesterday was the first day of orientation for the 2012 Summer Fellows, and it was jam-packed! We started the morning with a couple quick icebreakers to help everyone learn each others’ names. With 23 Fellows its hard to keep track of all of the new faces at first!

The 2012 Summer Fellows
Kelsey playing Giranimo. The game may seem tame, but it goes from this…

 

to this in a matter of seconds!

Next our Fellowship Leaders, Ben and Hudson, taught the Fellows all about the Global Water Crisis, Water-Related Disease, and how to stay healthy while working in Ghana.

Ben talking about the global water crisis and the MDGs
The Fellows, listening intently to the presentations

After a break for lunch, the Fellows were grouped into their Fellowship Teams, met their translators, and then headed to town for the CWS Scavenger Hunt! Although they got caught in a quick rainstorm, everyone had a blast!

 

 

The Winning Team “Global Pack” Khadijah, Brittni, Sarit, and Marwa. They blew the rest of the teams out of the water!
Team Sparkle: Alex, Olivia, and Kelsey. They can’t wait for Zoe to arrive in Tamale today to join them!
Team Scrub and Bubbles (best name award!): Kelsey, Moriah, and Mark

We finished off the day with an awesome performance by some local drummers and dancers!

These guys were amazing!

Each Fellow had a chance to dance on stage. I gotta say, our Fellows have got some moves!

Megan breakin it down
Matt’s moves were pretty amazing
Cameron’s ready to perform with the troupe for their next gig!

Overall it was a pretty awesome first full day in Tamale!
-Kate

We made it!

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After twenty-two fellows flew into Accra on forty-five different airplanes, we are thrilled to say that everyone has arrived safely and not a single bag was lost! Our final fellow will arrive on Thursday, joining us in Tamale soon after. We spent the evening relaxing on the patio of the Chez Lien guest house here in Accra, enjoying each other’s company before waking up early tomorrow to board the bus for Tamale. We’re all tremendously excited to be here and can’t wait to begin!

-Ben

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Some of the fellows on the patio at Chez Lien

CWS at UNICEF’s Photo Benefit

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This past Wednesday, May 30th, CWS was invited to UNICEF’s Water Themed Photo Benefit in New York City. After past fellows, Mira Thompson, Kathryn Padgett, Annie McBride, Heather Vereb and Hannah Hill entered pictures for the contest they had invited someone from CWS to represent the pictures. The pictures were posted on Facebook and the ones with the most “likes” were framed and auctioned off at the Benefit.

The gallery was packed with people and consisted of a celebration of water worldwide with cocktails, appetizers and art! The pictures were all amazing. It was so great seeing the excitement around bidding on the CWS pictures.The two CWS pictures in auction were pictures taken by past fellows Heather Vereb and Kathryn Padgett. Their pictures alone raised $325 for UNICEF!

Thank you UNICEF for inviting CWS to attend this great event, to Mira for letting us know about the photo contest and to our awesome Fellows who entered their pictures!

-Sam

Me with Kathryn’s piece of art of the left and Hannah’s on the right!

The Fellowship Leaders Have Arrived!

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Hudson and Ben enjoying the CWS Sundowners tradition

Our fearless fellowship leaders Hudson and Ben, arrived in Tamale yesterday – and with that, the Fellowship Program has officially begun! The boys have a 1.5 day leadership training program before they hop on the bus with Shak and Peter to head back down to Accra where they will meet the Fellows. We’re all so excited for the program to get started!