I went for work to the Volta Region (Eastern part of the country, borders Togo). Ho is the capital city of this region. Just South of Ho, I made a visit in a village of the region of Adaklu, which is named after the Adaklu Mount:
On the way to the village, called Helekpe (or Xelekpe, an Ewe name; "ewe" is the name of the predominant tribe of Volta Region and Southern Togo as well as their language), the road is very bumpy and cut by small rivers during rainy season:
But it doesn't prevent the MetroMassTransit bus to link villages:
coming..........approaching..............passing...
On the way to the village, called Helekpe (or Xelekpe, an Ewe name; "ewe" is the name of the predominant tribe of Volta Region and Southern Togo as well as their language), the road is very bumpy and cut by small rivers during rainy season:
But it doesn't prevent the MetroMassTransit bus to link villages:
coming..........approaching..............passing...
Sometimes loaded vehicles are impressively balanced...
The village of Helekpe:
Pupils coming back from school:
The NGO I visited in Ho, called Village Exchange International / Ghana, is involved in quite a number of project including batik clothes making and bids jewelery design. Glass bids production is an important activity in South-Eastern Ghana, dating from several hundreds of years back.
A street of Ho, the regional capital of Volta Region:
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