Host Family of the Month

This weeks Host Family comes from Cape Coast in the form of Philomina Sampson (Pictured right), a Primary School teacher who has hosted volunteers in Cape Coast for three years now. She was kind enough to take sometime out her day to speak to us at the Gateway.


"I decided to become a host mother as I wanted to learn about the different cultures of other people. The volunteers provide me with an interesting insight to a culture that is very different to the Ghanaian one so it is very special to interact with them.

I can host a maximum of four volunteers although normally I have two staying unless it gets very busy and the volunteers will live in the same apartment as me. Living with the volunteers and myself are my family including my brother Paakow who is 20 my daughters, Marilyn aged 10, Suzy who is just two years old, her son Jojo 9 years and my niece Gloria who is 16, they all enjoy very much spending time with the volunteers, although the fact that they stay for a small amount of time is sometimes a shame.


There have not really been any downsides to having volunteers to stay as most of the have a good cordial relationship with me and my family. However, sometimes we do have a problem with volunteers coming home late at night at we ask them to respect that they also live with a family. However, I generally spend a lot of time chatting with the volunteers and inviting them to share their time with us at special occasions. As such I see my future with Projects Abroad as very bright."