Volunteer Reflections

Beth Cramer of Boone, NC, USA, spent one month visiting a number of OCLF libraries to do research for her Doctoral Dissertation on Educational Leadership at Appalachian State University. (2010)

Gillian, Sara, Julia and Alex Williamson (with Emma, a librarian)of Ottawa, ON, Canada, spent a month in Ghana. They worked as two teams and divided their time between the Nungua library and the Kathy Knowles Community Library in Accra. (2010)

Andrew Amenyogbe of Vancouver, BC, Canada, spent three weeks helping out at both the Kathy Knowles Community Library and the new Accra College of Education Community Library.His father, Roger Amenyogbe, has been involved with OCLF for many years as an architect, including the design of the new library. (2011)

Penny and Callie Giaccone of Ottawa, ON, Canada, spent one month at different OCLF libraries in the Greater Accra region. (2011)

Nelly Amenyogbe of Vancouver, BC, Canada,, spent one week in Goi and time visiting other OCLF libraries. Like her brother, Andrew, who volunteered in 2011, she had the opportunity to visit libraries that her father, Roger Amenyogbe, had designed. She also enjoyed time dancing with the Kathy Knowles Theatre Company Ltd. at the Nima Centre. (2012)

Penny and Callie Giaccone of Ottawa, ON, Canada, returned to Ghana following their volunteer placement in 2011 along with sister Sophia. They went to Goi, and were welcomed back. (2012)

Alice Moulton, a Canadian volunteer with OCLF for the past 12 years, and her husband, Ed, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, attended the 20th anniversary of the Kathy Knowles Community Library and visited numerous library projects. (2012)

Anne Simpson of Antigonish, NS, Canada, did poetry workshops, helped theatre director Martin Legend with his ambitious first novel and spent two weeks helping in Goi. (2012)

Penny and Callie Giaccone of Ottawa, ON, Canada, returned to Ghana together for their 4th visit! They helped with the reading clinic at the Kathy Knowles Community Library in Accra. (2013)

George Hutchinson of Hampshire, United Kingdom, spent one month at the Kathy Knowles Community Library in Accra helping at their reading clinic and then visiting other libraries in Accra. (2013)