Richard Pitt – Long term volunteer

Posted on January 1, 2010 by admin

Richard PittRichard Pitt, CCH, RSHom (NA)
Homeopath and Educator
San Francisco California
Web Site:   www.richardpitt.com

He is a Homeopathic Practitioner, and is spending an entire sabbathical year with Ghana Homeopathy Project.
Trained in England between 1981-1984 and admitted to the Society of Homeopaths, UK in 1985.
Also studied in Greece with George Vithoulkas in 1983 and 1985 and in India in Calcutta in 1986-1987.
Practiced homeopathy for 25 years
Maintained a practice in San Francisco since 1996
For the Pacific Academy of Homeopathy – ran three clinics for student clinical education, seeing patients and overseeing student practitioners, from 1992 to 2008.

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December 11, 2009

Posted on December 11, 2009 by admin

Two days I took a local trotro (taxi van) up to the Volta region on the border of Togo and Ghana. A local pastor there is also a homeopath in training and I went there to see patients and follow up on other patients seen by Indian doctors the previous month. They had been inundated with patients when here so I was hoping it would be a bit mellower. Fortunately it was but today we still saw about 12 new patients and 7 follow ups so we were busy. As I’ve mentioned, taking cases here is rather different but still the basics have to be followed. Simply, people have less to say about themselves usually. Most people are farmers or other forms of laborers and live simple lives. Many of their conditions are work related e.g. back problems from bending over or neck problems from carrying too heavy weights on their head, but there are still quite a wide complexity of cases to see.

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Indian homeopathic doctors in Ghana

Posted on November 30, 2009 by admin

In October 2009, Ghana Homeopathy Project, with the help of a £1,000 donation from Sheaf Trust plus £1,000 raised from individual donors, was able to fund a training programme in Ghana. Two Indian homeopathic doctors with 30 years of experience in practice, Dr Kalyan Bhattacharyea and Dr Kalishankar Bhattacharyea, had volunteered to go to Ghana for 1 month to train Ghanian homeopaths . The Indians had been impressed with the Ghanians commitment to homeopathy, when GHP  were able to pay for the airfare for our project apprentice homeopath Emperor to study on a 2 week clinical training programme in India.
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November 22, 2009

Posted on November 22, 2009 by admin

November 22, 2009

Four days ago, a young woman in my compound died. I don’t think I knew her as she was apparently often sick, and either inside her house or at the hospital. She 24 years old. The first I knew of this was the sudden wailing of women when they were told the news. I asked my children friends in the compound about her but they seemed strangely vague and unmoved by it. “Were you friends with her,” I asked. They said yes but then didn’t say much more and I got the impression they were not that close and that perhaps she hadn’t been around much for a while. When I asked what she died of, they said it was typhoid, but that probably means that don’t really know. Typhoid is quite common here, like malaria, and so many diseases are simply put down to one of them. I will have to ask one of the adults more about it.
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November 16th 2009

Posted on November 16, 2009 by admin

Much of today day was spent going to the market with one of the teenage girls in the compound where I live, to buy food for dinner, which was a traditional fish and okra soup with Banku, a gruel style mix of cassava and maise, which is allowed to ferment. We took about 2 hours to cook it and then we sat outside, with one big bowl of soup, another bowl with the banku in and we ate with all the young kids, about 7 of them, all of us plowing into the banku plate, then dipping it into the soup and chowing down. It was mayhem, but fun, all of us huddling over the food and diving in. It tasted wonderful.
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Emperor, Volta Region

Posted on October 9, 2009 by admin

EmperorHOMEOPATHY IN PRACTICE AT SEVA CLINIC AND HOW IT ALL STARTED by Samuel Tsamenyi (Emperor)

Homeopathy is well accepted at Seva and its environs in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region of Ghana.  The practice started three years ago and we treat patients with both chronic and acute cases from far and near and even outside the District. I am a trained Primary Health Care Worker and apprentice homeopath working under supervision. The clinic is integrated within a larger project co-ordinated by the charity AMURT Ghana. It includes a big water reservoir which supplies clean water to 35 villages in the region
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Bonsu Boaten, Kumasi

Posted on October 9, 2009 by admin

Bonsu BoatenI now live in Kumasi, Ghana where I am a teacher and manager at the Montessori School . Alongside education, my other great love is homeopathy. I lived in the UK for 20 years and was educated there. When I had some health problems I consulted a homeopath, who gave me Lycopodium. The very next day, all the eczema I’d had as a child returned.

The eczema remained for 10 days, and after that all my health problems improved. It made me feel that this homeopathy is wonderful. I began to read more and studied at the College of Homeopathy, London for 1 year, after which I continued my training with the British Institute of Homeopathy.  I thought, “If you can take a bottle of mother tincture and and supply a whole country, then that is the medicine I want to take to Ghana!”
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Julius Berdie, Accra

Posted on October 9, 2009 by admin

JULIUS M.K. BERDIE,
B.Pharm (Hons), M.Pharm, FPC Pharm., Dip Hom.Julius Berdie

I am a pharmacist and a classical homeopath.  I have practised for almost 30 years and worked as a medical representative for Glaxomed, now Glaxo Smith Kline, for 8 years.

I discovered homeopathy 15 years ago when the group Homeopaths Without Borders ran a training programme in homeopathy for doctors, pharmacists and nurses here in Accra.  I was curious, becoming increasingly interested in homeopathy as my experience deepened.
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Tales from Kumasi

Posted on August 30, 2009 by admin

Kathleen Moore in Kumasi ClinicKathleen Moore is our Kumasi volunteer. Kathleen is working together with Bonsu Boaten at our new Kumasi clinic. The clinic is our base for several outreach clinics, where we can bring homeopathy to poorer areas.

“Our out reach clinics(ORC) continue. We now go to three villages at the rate of one a week. We have had the same huge response at each. When we have visited each we go back three weeks later for follow ups.
The second one was in a little chapel with benches (pews?). The waiting people organised themselves into a queue. The front bench was always next. We were on the stage. sorry, altar. I realised how much the confidential information was the entertainment when a confused woman came up. All the audience joined in to correct the information she gave us.
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Paige Allen

Posted on August 15, 2009 by admin

Paige Allen has years of experience from involvement in a number of charities both in Eastern Europe and Africa, as well as being an entrepreneur running a social enterprise business to raise much needed funds for charities.

Paige through being a trustee is committed to seeing the work of this charity spreading and helping many more Africans throughout the continent in a cost effective, sustainable way.
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