Blog
A Covid Update for Ghana
As we all have heard about the effect of Covid across the world, here is a summary on the impact in Ghana.
There’s a lot going on in Sawla…
Stories from the latest IAP team traveling to Sawla to encourage our co-workers as they support our children and the community.
Spring Project Update - 2019
An IAP team returning from Northern Ghana and the Sawla Children's Home recaps their travels and the project impact in the region.
The Children Are Growing & So Are Our Businesses!
A newsletter update from the Sawla Project in Northern Ghana.
Children Growing, Thriving & Succeeding
A newsletter update from the Sawla Project in Northern Ghana
Year End Review
This is truly a season of reflection. It used to be that one year simply flowed into the next, but in recent years I have found myself giving pause more intentionally, observing and taking-to-heart the things that God is accomplishing for His purpose and glory. In my family, my real estate business, and in my faith community, which includes IAP, the Lord continues to reveal Himself in amazing ways.
School Dropout Empowered to Leadership
Onetime school dropout returns, becomes leader of girls program Proyecto Capaz
The Connected Human Experience
Last Thursday, I went to a coffee shop between work and basketball. I’ve been driving a lot here—a major contrast to my life in Guatemala this summer—and decided it would better serve my internal life to do some reading instead of racing home only to turn right around and leave again. I opened my book and settled in for a few minutes.
Ghana Director Travel Needs
You can help meet a very practical need in support of the Sawla Children's Home
Walking With Others In Their Darkest Hour
On Sunday, August 7, eleven of us went to a funeral in Parramos, a town near Antigua. Maria died at age 37 of an unknown illness and leaves behind four girls, three of whom are students at Escuela Integrada. The girls—Maria Fernanda, Evelyn, Norma and Anita are 11, 9, 8 and 4, respectively. This is not how I thought I would spend my last full day in Guatemala, but...
Fighting time, fear and (lack of) infrastructure in Antigua
Sunday marked halfway. And I panicked. The first three weeks in Antigua were incredible — both incredibly hard and incredibly beautiful. I met people from all over the world, visited places of extreme poverty and wrote stories from what seemed to be an endless spring of ideas and inspiration.
The face of poverty is real, human and heartbreaking in Antigua.
The title of this email comes from a story I wrote about the eye-opening experience of visiting the home of two kids from Escuela Integrada (photo bottom left). An excerpt is below and the full story is on Medium.com. The experience smacked me in the face...
The First Three Days
It's been a full first few days here in Antigua. I landed just before midnight on Saturday and found that customs here seems far easier than in the U.S. I had my bag and found...
Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Girón!
The IAP family wishes Frosty & Hannah all the best as they begin the new life together.
A Note From Nathan Fillion
You’re here to celebrate my birthday?! That’s awfully sweet of you. But I don’t need any gifts, so how about I give something to YOU? For a $10 donation to Sawla Children’s Home (more on them below), you’ll be entered to win a trip to Los Angeles to have a birthday lunch with me!