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Meet the Tognis: Las familia Circo

In Articles, Blog, Ghana, Photo Essays, Trainer, Uncategorized,
by Daniel Kresnyak April 23, 2012
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Yecid’s clothes don’t fit him quite right, his shoes are four sizes too large, his left wrist sometimes pops out of place and it always aches with arthritis. The mangled joint is a painful reminder of a fall he suffered at work. At the same job he’s had more than forty years, where every night [...]

Tagged as: Animal Rights, Circus, Employment, Family, Ghana, human rights, Italy, Nomad, Tradition, Travel

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Down the road to BASCO

In Articles, Ghana, Photo Essays, Trainer, Uncategorized,
by Daniel Kresnyak March 19, 2012
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Vida sits in a scratched wooden chair beneath the only coconut tree in a clearing. She has a series of line scars next to her eyes and mouth, three sets of four, twelve marks in all. “I got them from my mother,” she says. “When I was a baby I was sick she gave me [...]

Tagged as: Agriculture, education, orphans

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One more round for Little Rabbit

In Uncategorized,
by Daniel Kresnyak March 14, 2012

We met at a bar in Adabraka. He’s short, just shy of five and a half feet, though powerfully built. His rowdy appearance intensified by an ill-fitting shirt and trousers. His lips crack a smile to reveal gapped teeth and fermented breath, yet he moves with remarkable grace for a drunkard. He says his name [...]

Tagged as: alcoholism, boxing, exploitation

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Justice be done in public: Ghanaian identification parades

In Ghana, Trainer,
by Daniel Kresnyak February 28, 2012

She wears an intricately woven blue dress, fresh black high-heels and ties a matching scarf around her head to keep long braids away from her face. She is cautious not muss her outfit and avoids the shallow puddles as she walks through the rain damp courtyard of Accra-Central’s police station. Her wardrobe is no accident [...]

Tagged as: crime, gendered violence, Justice, sexual assault, victims

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Going home: The first plane out of Budum buram

In Ghana, Trainer,
by Daniel Kresnyak February 23, 2012

After more than two decades in Ghana, some Liberian refugees will soon board planes bound for home. This first step in repatriation comes after the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) reported the West African nation’s political climate has stabilized and placed a time-line on the status of Liberians abroad. In Ghana, most of [...]

Tagged as: Liberia, Refugees, Repatriation, UNHCR

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Who Owns the Land?: Deconstructing Joma

In Ghana, Trainer,
by Daniel Kresnyak February 16, 2012
Clemente stands in front of his neighbour's house

Clemente’s house is one of the few buildings in Joma with a roof. In fact, it’s one of the last structures still standing in the devastated area. From his front porch he can see the smashed bricks and mortar that were once the homes of his friends and neighbours. “Afterward, it looked like a tornado [...]

Tagged as: Access to Education, chieftancy rights, destruction, development, eviction, land titles, water rights

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Gutter gardens: MH-37′s toxic run-off

In Ghana, Trainer, Uncategorized,
by Daniel Kresnyak February 11, 2012

Accra’s Military Hospital No. 37, was built during the Second World War and it’s obsolescence is becoming evident. About a year ago, the pipe carrying raw medical waste from the mortuary, maternity and surgical theaters to the treatment tank was damaged. Unable to fix the line, the hospital began dumping bio-hazardous material into the city’s [...]

Tagged as: Agriculture, bio-hazard, export, Food, medical waste, sewers

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