“I picked up the supplies for them and shipped them to the school in my old neighborhood,” said Quarcoo, now 71. To help supplement his teaching salary, Quarcoo was working part time as a waiter at Woodmont Country Club, an exclusive golf and tennis club where initial membership costs $80,000. The funds were used to buy supplies for nearly 2,000 students. But we did have uniforms, because you weren’t allowed to go to school without one.”Quarcoo flashed on that memory when he first started mailing school supplies to Ghana in 1999. Then, when the cost of shipping escalated, he decided that it made more sense to travel to Ghana and buy the supplies there.

Source: Washington Post December 28, 2020 11:00 UTC