First Official Trailer

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Here is the first trailer

Children of Ghana Trailer from Jeff Arnold of JAFilm on Vimeo.

Africa Photo of the Day

Another beautiful child that lives in Agbogbloshie. BUY HERE

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Africa Photo of the day

This girl lives in the Orphanage in Aflao.  One of the many new friends we made in Aflao. BUY HERE

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Africa Photo of the Day

This is Agbogbloshie during a rainstorm.  This is one of my favorite places in Africa. The peole that leave here have so little but are so Happy. BUY HERE

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Meet the Fisherboys of Yeji, Ghana

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    It’s 2am and these boys just woke up and are heading down a small dirt path with 1 small flash light to their boat.  Upon arrival Wisdom grabs a small bucket and begins to scoop all the water that filled the boat over night out of the boat so they can begin to fish.  Confidence and Robert begin to grab the nets and untangle them so they are ready to be thrown.  Mowuli is patching the wholes in the boat so they do not sink while they are out fishing for the next 4 hours.  Once everything is ready they push off trying to beat the other fishermen to the best spots for a chance to catch more fish.  With Mowuli paddling and leading the way Robert is scooping the water that is coming in out of the boat.

   While Confidence and Wisdom lay the nets down.  Once the nets are positioned they head back to shore and begin pulling them in slowly so they can keep all the fish.  Over the next 4 hours they will repeat this 4 or 5 times depending on how many fish they catch.  After they catch all the small fish they head to the shore to sell them to the women that will then carry them on their heads and sell them in the market.  The boys then walk 1 mile to school where they usually fall asleep because they are so tired from waking up so early.  After school they walk home, eat and head back to the laketo do the whole process over.  After they are down for the day they go home and give their “father” the $4.00 they made and go to sleep to repeat the whole process again

    These boys need a place where they can grow and be loved.  Where they can actually learn and not spend their entire day working for money they will never see.  They each have dreams and so much potential.  Right now we are trying to get them out of the fishing buisness and into a home where they can grow and develop.  It takes $200 a month for housing, food and school to put this guys in a place they can reach their dreams.  For more information please email Thomas Woodall @ tgwhummer1@yahoo.com.

   

 
 
 

Meet Wisdom- Fisherboy of the day- Jason Mraz in Ghana

Meet Wisdom- He is 7 years old and he to gets up every morning @ 2am to fish along side his brothers till 6am. Fishing for them is not a easy task.  Their boat has holes in it and Wisdoms job is to have a bucket and constantly pour water out of the boat so they do not sink. He is full of life and wants to be a headmaster when he grows up so he can help his community.  There are hundreds of boys just like him around Volta lake that do not have a choice but to fish.  Jason Mraz recently went to Ghana and toured around to meet several of this boys. Check out his reason for being there http://bit.ly/9FDaDZ Please join with us and help raise awareness about what is going on in Ghana.  With your help we can save this kids.

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Last Day

A fair well and Thanks from Ghana! Our time here has been beautiful, and in so many ways. Beautiful in the way God showed us each child to follow, beautiful in the way Ghana’s culture is so bright and colorful, and beautiful that you and I get to be a part of what God is doing in Ghana. A privilege, a blessing, an honor; one that I pray we carry with courage and fearlessness. We want to thank each of you for reading, watching, praying and encouraging. We want to thank you for being part of something that is so much bigger than ourselves. We want you to dream with us, build with us, and raise families with us. Together we can be stronger, with God we can do more. On our return to the USA we will start the long process of editing; recording music, having meetings, building graphics, syncing, coloring and finalizing the film. We want this film to be excellent from beginning to end. To glorify our Father, to bring awareness and show the day and life of a few children here in Ghana. We apologize in advance for our sporadic few and far between blog post. As well as editing, some of us will be in school, planning the next steps, in different states and seeing things through. We encourage people to stay in contact, to seek answers and to push forward. We pray and hope the DVD will be complete by early 2011. Lets continue to pray. If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact us any time, we’d love to hear from you!

Thank you again.

Thomas

972.743.1413

tgwhummer1@yahoo.com

Meet Confidence- Fisherboy of the day

Meet Confidence he is 11 years of age and wants to be an actor when he grows up.  He has a great sense of humor and always made us laugh when he wasn’t fishing.

I see so much potential in him, but in his current situation there is no time for laughing and having fun.  Sure they find time between fishing, school and selling fish to make money they never see.  But can you imagine if he had time to develop his talent to make people laugh.  I don’t tell you this to make you sad or feel sorry for this group of fisherboys, but to give you a passion to see them reach their dreams.  They need real education and a place they can be feel loved and challeneged to reach their dreams.  If you are interested in helping financially please email Thomas Woodall @ tgwhummer@yahoo.com

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Meet Mowuli – Fisherboy of the day

Meet Mowuli, he is 21 years of age and has been fishing since he can remember.  He is the leader of 4 boys that get up every morning at 2am to go fishing.  After finishing at 6am he then walks 1 mile to school. He just started schooling last year and is only in Class 3, in which he is by far the oldest in his class.  After school he walks home, eats then goes back out on the lake to fish until Sunset. When you look into his eyes you see dreams that will never come true,
and pain that will never leave. Unless we can change that. We are currently trying to pull them out of their situation and get them into a proper school, a place they can feel loved and reach for their dreams.  If you are interested in helping financially please email Thomas Woodall @ tgwhummer@yahoo.com

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Fisherboy of the day

This week is dedicated to the Fisher boys in Ghana.  These boys do not have a choice to fish.  They are forced to by their parents and are sold to the fisherman to be used to untangle nets among other dangerous task.  BUY HERE

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