I met with Rhion Magee, a woman involved with the Project Okurase working with villages in Ghana, and my dear friend Linda McManus, co-founder of Enrichment Educational Experiences who in the last year has developed a mentoring program for young women, teaching them different skills including the art of sewing and business development.
Both ladies are doing similar work and have joined forces by simultaneously teaching villagers in Ghana and young women in the San Fernando Valley creative skills to utilize their talents and natural resources for building positive self-esteem and economic growth.
Currently, both groups are making reusable grocery bags from the discards of rice and flour bags that are extremely durable and amazingly beautiful. Attendees will love these very chic bags and I hope they sell lots of them at the show to help support their great work.
It is so beautiful to see both of these organizations servicing young people on different corners of the world with similar visions.
Cindy Cupit Swenson, Project Okaruse founder and her team of angels are teaching the people of Ghana how to build a school, literally one brick at a time. The villagers are actually making each brick, learning the craft of making musical instruments, sewing skills, harvesting shea butter and utilizing it to make body care products, soap, curing bamboo to make bicycles and much more.
We discussed the possibility of one of the Ghana locals, Samuel Nkrumah Yeboah, also known as Powerful, being in Los Angeles next April for the WCWP Expo. He is a respected drum maker, teacher and performer and holds a degree in Doctor of Humane Letters. The Enrichment Village may have lots of enriching surprises.
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