We don't know how well we (UK) have it!...

Over lunch time I visited one of the Cell sites which Ghana Telecom own. Ashaiman Police Station. It's about 20 min East of Accra by car. When I arrived the site is located in teh midst of an amazing hustle and bustle crossroads, I thought nothing much of it until I was up on the roof of the building and looked back down onto the economy around me. This picture is of the homes in and around this area, a shanty town of amazing resilience.

I thought how does this all work, chaos, squalid conditions, children wanting to sell me chewing gum, every comodity I could think of was available in the stalls and from street traders, but how does it function? How does it all work, then I realised they are living in the "now" for food for tomorrow. They needed to sell in order to eat, today was here and tomorrow was not. Don't we get it all out of perspective when we plan for next year, "Oh dear we have not a budget for this" and "what will happen when our thousands run out", yet here I saw a people who whilst living in the moment could give me a smile.

More photos of Ashaiman on Flickr