Kellie Peake's blog

Three of InterAction's member NGOs last week presented on award-winning programs in several East African countries and Ghana, explaining their approaches to building the capacity of local organizations working in food security and agriculture. The organizations that presented at InterAction's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

NGO Aid Map will be giving away $10 Starbucks gift cards every day this week, starting today, July 16 until July 17, 2012.

Ghana has long been seen as the “golden child” of West Africa, and not just because of its substantial gold deposits. It was the first country to tear away from the British in 1957, and in the last decade a new constitution has proved its democratic fervor successful. Now Ghana continues to glimmer on the golden coast, impressing the international arena by being on track to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.