For this weeks installment of “Passport to . . .” I was provided the opportunity to interview a young lady named Selasi Yamador. She is currently a senior studying Community Health. During the interview I learned a little bit about her culture, memories, personal experiences, and aspirations for Ghana.
Selasi Yamador Community Health
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Name something you can find/do in
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia”>Something that you can find in Ghana that you can not find here is people selling everything, and anything on the street. Toilet paper, tooth brush, chips, Cds, everything . . . It sounds funny, but its true.
he most remarkable thing about my culture would have to be the culture itself, the fact that there is a culture. Ghanaians have history — tradition. Example the way we party, celebrate our engagements, its very different compared to American culture. Even the way I was raised, they way I speak to adults, you can tell the difference. I have noticed that in America, things change with the generation, but in Ghana they stick to tradition; they have very strong values. In Ghana it basically “is what it is” if something was unacceptable fifty years ago, it still is today.
Welcoming! Ghanaians are so welcoming. Amber Rose was in Ghana Going to school as a little girl. And I remember buying ice cream “fan ice” from the little man, who used to sell it from the back of his bicycle. It was sooo much fun.
Well since I want to do something in the field that I am in, I would want to help there Public Health system, I defiantly want to give back in that area. The public health system in Ghana, is not where it should be, its not as strong as expected. They have been having a lot cholera outbreaks, a lot of preventable diseases. Things that we have cures for in American, they do not have it there. I want to give back what I have learned at VCU and take it back to Ghana, and inform, teach, and help out with the system, so little children do not have to die from curable diseases, diseases that could be prevented.