We got to Senegal around 1 pm, and those at the Senegal border didn’t care about us coming to help their kids. They kept us for 3hrs that we must pay 55,000 CFE, and the driver helped us pay the money, getting to the Gambia border around 5 am on Friday, the same day of […]
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We got to Guinea border around 6pm and someone told us that the drivers could take us to Gambia straight since we didn’t have any volunteer in Guinea, we stopped at a community after the border, spoke to a woman and we were able to get kids to attend to, getting to the park we
On the Nov.19, 2022, we woke up as early as 5am to catch up the flight, which we already had an earlier arrangement with a driver who charged us 500 Ghana cd, we paid him all the money a night before but to our greatest surprise this driver waited for us to put all our
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Getting a bus to proceed on our trip was a big issue in Liberia but through the help of our volunteer we had to take two separate commercial cars; we were separated on the trip which was very worrisome, we felt so much joy when we meet ourselves at each border points, the first driver
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How do we start with the story of the Ivory Coast? The fact that for a moment, we felt completely lost. We’d backed a bus the day before and paid almost $6000 for the bus to convey us to Senegal, making stops along the way.Our plans didn’t pen out the way we hoped. But no
Ivory Coast: of closed borders, the trial, conflict, and God’s grace. Read More »
We’d spent four days without a bath, and no food, in rickety buses down rolling hills in Guinea. We were spent. Beyond physical exhaustion, we were emotionally drained. It was visible in attitudes, speeches, and several nerves on edge.The journey, however, had to continue because we had a few days to end the tour. Once
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We’d finished our work in Guinea and tried purchasing flights to Senegal on Tuesday. The night before we stayed at the worst hotel with no running water. At Air Senegal, everything was against us purchasing those tickets. We tried everything until 5.20 pm. The flight which was supposed to be at 8 pm was canceled
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We had hired a bus to take us to Ivory Coast and after being stuck at the border of Ivory Coast for 24 hrs and sleeping overnight we’d asked the driver for a partial refund of the money we paid totaling about $4850. He refused. We demanded he took us back to Accra to sort
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We left Benin for Togo on the same day at about 6 pm; we didn’t know where we were going, nor a contact person or volunteer to help. Midway some team members were telling Vivian to leave out Togo; she refused that she would instead pour the gifts on the street of Togo rather than
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Day 1 The hope team of 14 members arrived in Lagos on November 10; most of the team members slept at County Estate Agege, while the Naija explorer team of four members came over to Agege to board the bus; we planned to leave earlier. But the Naija explorer team went over an hour late
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