Our visit to Kumasi comes to a close tomorrow

We still have limited access to the Internet in Kumasi.  That will change tomorrow when we will be traveling back to Accra, Ghana, (August 6th) after completing our mission in Kumasi. There, we will be able to post more photos, a few videos, and tell more stories about our journey.  Actually, our mission has just begun in many ways since we hope that Temple will sign an articulation agreement with the University in Kumasi and with the College of Integrated Medical Sciences (CIMS).  As we have noted earlier in this blog, our volunteer work was focused on assisting CIMS -- a start-up medical school that needs lots of help and advice to help them establish the local partnerships (e.g., the University) needed to start their accreditation process. We helped with strategic planning, a prioritization scheme, and, perhaps most importantly, we played a key advisory role to help them leverage their mission to garner appropriate academic partnerships. We believe that the international partnership that Temple would provide would help jump-start the phase one goals that CIMS have articulated. 

So what exactly is the mission of CIMS? Stay tuned and we will post their stated mission on this blog.  We will meet with Dr. Addai, founder of CIMS, tonight for dinner and he will let us copy the file containing the mission statement on to our laptop. For now, we will sign off since our short Internet log-on time is running out.