Another unfortunate way that Ghana reminds me of Haiti: a great risk of devastation by flash flooding.
This past week, our Ghanaian Mission Resource Director, Emmanuel, has been sending videos and photos of recent flooding around Lake Volta, an extensive reservoir with miles upon miles of shoreline.
Those shorelines are populated by fishing villages, some of which are home to Mission Resource clients who are fishermen.
Emmanuel says that some clients have lost homes and fishing nets and are now struggling to feed their families. Below are some villagers around Salaga surveying the storm damage. A thick branch is used to prop up what is left of a house's mudbrick wall.
Such flooding causes suffering and loss wherever it visits this planet, but in most parts of the developing world, recovery efforts sponsored by government agencies or affluent neighboring cities are nonexistent.
The resources just don't exist.
Mission Resource is exploring ways to respond compassionately and constructively. If you would like to support efforts to help our fishermen recover and move forward in their businesses, click on the link below. At the top of the donation form, it will give you the option to "Designate your gift to a fund". Use the dropdown menu there to select "2023 Flooding".
DONATE TO MISSION RESOURCE to Provide Flood Relief
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