Ghana: Accra bonds with US sister city through agriculture project
Three teenage girls from Ghana perused the flowers and plants in the garden behind the North YMCA, picking ripe tomatoes and examining the peppers.
“This is your sister garden,” Dustin Homan said to the visitors from western Africa. Two of them are from Accra, Columbus’ sister city since 2015, and one is from nearby.
In a studio inside, the girls gathered around a white table and prepped the vegetables for salsa. Tasting periodically, Homan, program manager for 4-H Club special projects with Ohio State University, gave out instructions.
Five Ghanaian visitors arrived Wednesday morning — the three girls and two adults. Fame Makafui Nissi-Brown, 16, and Emelia Naa Adai Ashiley, 16, represented the YMCA in Accra and Theodora Ama Kensema, 15, the 4-H in Ghana. Here in central Ohio, YMCA staff members, 4-H members and Sister Cities International and Ohio State University staff and faculty members spent a week with them talking about agriculture.
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