All about the family

In one word I can give with you one of my biggest takeaways from my latest trip to Ghana.

It’s hard to think of anything more important. 

Filled with beauty. 

Filled with power. 

To spend time with them.

Listen to them. 

And support them. 

One week ago today, I experienced a powerful and life changing moment. 

Not a day has passed without reflection.. 

I was walking in the village with my Uncle Gershon when he pointed to a building and said..

“This is the school I went to.” 

“That’s a school?”. 

It looked like an old ranch style house, except there were no doors and no windows. 

From afar you would think it was an abandoned building. 

Wanting to get closer, I asked if we could go and see. 

We walked right up to the school and walked directly inside of a classroom. 

No entrance, no lobby, no office, no hallway. 

Just dirt road to classroom. 

The moment we walked in, all I could see were beautiful children. 

And all I could hear were the sounds of desks and chairs moving..

every single child stood up and welcomed us. 

“Good Afternoon”. 

I was touched.

At the same time my heart was sinking. 

I asked to speak with the principal.

I was informed there was none, only a head teacher. 

Thankfully as we walked the area, we saw a group of teachers sitting outside grading papers. 

They offered us seats, and I asked..

“What do the children need most?” 

One teacher told me the younger children had no games to play with. 

There were no books to read. No notebooks. No computers.

“The children love playing sports, but they don’t have any equipment.”

My heart had already decided I was going to do something to help. 

And of course Uncle Gershon told me he was in. 

I told a friend about my experience and she was immediately in.

And then back in New York..

co-workers who saw my instagram offered to help. 

I didn’t ask anyone. 

I was content with doing all I could. 

And then came..

The Family. 

The Family is everyone you see in the picture above. 

Like family, we do a lot of things with and for each other.

And the top of 2023..

we decided we would each deposit a portion of every check into an account and do something together at the end of the year. 

But yesterday..

one of the members of The Family informed me that the rest of the family had agreed to take the money we had been saving, and give it to help the school. 

I didn’t ask anyone..

But guess..

“that is what fam..”