The end of another visit to Ghana
Today is the last day of another short visit to Ghana. A busy week, featured quite a few meetings, and visits to the Agbogbloshie waste recycling area, to the…
Threatened client…
Today I received the following chilling news from a colleague, published in yesterday's Latin American Herald Tribune. Mrs. Sandra Morelli, who heads up the Contraloria General de la Republica, has…
Walking weekend
Monday 2nd July, 2012 Though I usually write about (semi)professional issues, or at least work-related ones, I want to share something about this last weekend, when I travelled to the…
Payment irritations…
Usually my invoices have been paid on (or before) time. Certainly this is the case for those people that I have worked with often. Which makes it irritating when a…
Place to think, read and write
Spending another week in Accra in connection with the electronic scrap recycling project. Tomorrow I need to make a small presentation about the project during the Sustainable City Development Seminar,…
Ghana Vice-President speaks against illegal small-scale mining
8th May, 2012 Miningne.ws reports that Vice-President Mahama spoke out against illegal small-scale mining ('galamsey') in Ghana, and in particular has "cautioned Chiefs and traditional leaders against condoning conniving with…
Photographs from training in Accra
I'm back from a week in Ghana, participating in a training programme for e-scrap workers in that country. The training sessions were very ably conducted by Jenny Hughes and Stephen…
Valuable scrap
Today we prepared for a couple of days’ training with scrap workers in Accra, Ghana. Discussion of the programme for the next four days, followed by purchase of some…
Back in Accra…
Yesterday evening I flew into Accra again, this time accompanied by Marina and two of her colleagues. They departed onwards to Tamale this morning, going to conduct a first 'train-the-trainers'…
Field visit to Soacha
Yesterday saw us visiting a couple of mining sites for building materials near Bogota, and surrounding areas. Rather than providing a lot of text, in this instance, I prefer to…