Here are
this year’s Outstanding Service Award winners, in GHEI staff’s own words.
Ernest ‘Saga’
Badu on Meera Patel:
Meera was
dependable, when she said we would learn something, we would learn it. During
computer training, I learned how to draw a pie chart on the computer. I will be using that in the future during my
exam questions. I can do it now without
her supervision, but only because she helped me.
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| Aggie, Meera, Tola, and Poranee |
She was
cooperative at the football camp, she made sure everyone had a chance to
participate. She was always fair to
everyone involved, and she was always thinking about what she could do to help
others. She responded to problems, in
the football tournament, she was like a medic.
When someone would get hurt, she would go to them, and she would attend
to them seriously.
And she is
very friendly, but she was also very good at pretending to be a bad sportsman
during the camp. And I thought that was
awesome.
Dickson
Akah Mensah on Sarah Gustafson:
She was
dedicated, very hardworking, and she had very good interactions with all the people
she saw. The way she talked to people,
she made people feel very comfortable.
The mothers who brought their children were very happy when they saw
her, and the children also liked her.
Even if some cried, she was very gentle and they liked her somehow after
crying.
She
represented GHEI very well culturally in Ampenkrom. And wherever she went she created a very good
environment. There were many people who
liked her
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| Sarah and Dickson |
I think she
needs to come back! This is volunteer work, and its rare to find someone with
so many good quality of leadership. We
were very lucky to have someone who would do this voluntary, and be so
skilled. She must come back to Ampenkrom
next year!
Aggie Obeng
on Erin Rosen:
She was
very nice and friendly but also liked we had done when we finished for
the day. At the end of the day she was
always praising what we had done and praising the way all of us were doing the
work together.
When there
was something that needed to be done on the surveys she consulted people
individually, and she was very serious.
If the interviewer did not understand how to ask the question properly
she made sure that they understood, but it was always in a nice and friendly
way. She never made people scared, but
she was serious about the work.
I really like what she accomplished when she was here. Not only the work she did, but the way she did her work was also very good.
Lawrence
Donkor on Krista Nickerson:
In session
one of Summer Serve and Learn 2011, there were three volunteers and they all
did their best, but Krista distinguished herself in that she really understood
the words “Serve and Learn”.
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| Krista reads a book while Helen and Lexi look on |
She was
active in working, sharing concerns, asking questions to know what she needed
to know and was positive in all the activities.
To me, the most interesting part is that she likes working with
different people and showing a lot of qualities that shows that she can be a
leader. She showed respect to all
people from students, GHEI staff members, and volunteers and their community
members as a whole. She acted exactly
the same in session two. Again she is
the first person to take lead in all the activities and the role plays, because
of that some of the girls from Girls’ Empowerment have taken her as their role
model.
More or
less, she spent only four weeks in Humjibre but still, people had her name in
their minds, which I think is good.
On our Facebook page: Check out Erin's photo album of her time in Ghana here
