I wish all of my readers a happy new year! It’s a new year with new dreams, new hope and new possibilities. When I came home from Ghana last year I felt that I wanted to do something more. I contacted my friend Susanna that has started her own orphanage in Ghana. She was looking for sponsorship for her children so everyone could start school. You pay a fee every year to be able to go to school in Ghana. I thought it was an excellent idea so I told her that I wanted to contribute to that in some way. Some days later I got a mail with some information about the child that I helped with starting school. And also two pictures of her. It felt so good to be able to help in other ways! The child I have helped is named Grace, she is six years old 
This is Grace
Even though I had done something to help her orphanage I felt like I wanted to do more. I miss Ghana so much and have a desire to go back some day so I saved up money when I worked and talked to Susanna again. We decided that I was going to help here develop and improve her orphanage. So I decided to book a journey back to Ghana!!! I’m travelling back in February (very soon!) and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m going to stay for a month and work with Susanna at Shalom orphanage. We have some projects that we are going to do. It’s going to be so fun. I’m going to meet Grace, visit my host families that I lived with last time and also visit Helping Hand and Mums care. It feels so unbelievable!
I have talked to volunteers that have been to both Helping Hand and Mums care and a lot of the children that I worked with are not living at the orphanages anymore. It feels a bit sad that I don’t know where they are or how they feel 
I’m having a collection this time as well but not on my blog. It’s a smaller collection and all of the contributions go to the projects that we are going perform in Ghana.
First of all, I would be able to help by improving the living standard of the children at Shalom orphanage. The things that we need to improve are building new beds for the children as they only have seven beds right now that they have to share (they are about 25 children living there). So they need more beds, new mattresses and new sheets for the beds. The other thing that the children also need is shelves to store their clothes in, as they currently have their clothes in bags. Wear on the house needs to be fixed and we need to build benches and tables so the children have somewhere to sit and eat their food and do their homeworks on. I also want to buy things for the children that they need, but I don’t know exactly right now what their needs are. I’m going to find that out when I’m in Ghana. There are always things to improve 
Nobody can do everything but everyone can do something Contact me if you are interested in donating to Shalom Orphanage and I will tell you how to do it. 