Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Byron Mereiweather Carrying the Message in Ghana


Mr. Byron Merriweather is currently spending one year in Ghana. (Until late April 2014).  He is working towards the development of a chapter of Oxford Houses in Ghana, establishing a Women's with Children house in Ashaiman, looking at establishing an Oxford House in Kumasi, taking the lead role in the development of a high quality of care treatment program at the House of St. Francis in Ashaiman and continuing to startup more 12-step support group/recovery meetings in Ghana.  He says, "I am still staying on the path of planting and watering the seeds of recovery throughout Ghana. Doing the grass-roots things for the recovery movement in Ghana. Developing workshops on "Recovery Dynamics" and "How to establish and facilitate 12-step support group meetings". He continues to develop more AA/NA/MA/Al-Anon 12 step fellowship meetings. He furthers recovery "sponsorship" and peer mentoring networks utilizing state of the art technology and social networking (I.e. Twitter, Facebook) to assist in this process. Byron adds, "I am continuing on the path towards reaching the goal of establishing transitional recovery housing, treatment centers and 12-step support groups in each of the ten regions in Ghana".

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