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West Coast NGO helps Ghanaian girls go to school
For the last few years Create Change, an NGO based on Canada's West Coast, has been working to help girls in northern Ghana get an education. The Link's Lorn Curry reports on a visit to Vancouver by four of those girls, in town to talk about how education has changed their lives.
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