Anything Goes

In Ghana, it's extremely common to have performers come up to your table and creatively ask for money. This is the first I've seen of a ventriloquist, though. He gets a 10/10 for creativity.

Another very common sight are children coming up to your car window selling this-and-that for some pocket change. I always used to think these children were truly in poverty to be going car-to-car selling plantain chips for 50 cents. Of course, relatively most people are economically worse off than in the US.

My colleague made the comparison of how we used to sell lemonade, walk dogs, or mow lawns in the US to get extra spending money as kids and teenagers. In Ghana, the lemonade stand can be the same as selling chips through car windows. Many children pick up their bucket of items after school and head out to the highways. Interesting thoughts! Poverty is not black and white, and it's very easy to make assumptions about what we see everyday here.