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 Listen to Maa's story
 She is an 80 year old peasant farmer living way out in rural Ghana growing cocoa and bananas.
Although poor herself, for four decades she has dedicated all her free time to helping people poorer than herself who, when they fall sick, are unable to pay for medical treatment and hospital care.
She spends her days touring the wards in the local Presbyterian Hospital. Meeting new patients, assessing their needs and then depending on what they need either using her own money to buy medicines, getting hold of clothes, cooking them food or even cutting wood in the forest to sell to pay their hospital bills.
 Everyone in the hospital knows her. They have a number of nicknames for her - one calls her "Yoof" because she seems so youthful, another calls her "Go-to-Farm" because she always encourages people to grow their own produce and now she has been dubbed the Mother Theresa of Ghana.
Her priest certainly thinks this is a good comparison and would like to think that one day she may be sanctified.
Programme One: Meet Ndungi Githuku
Programme Three: Meet Fola Adeola
Programme Four: Meet Father Nzajumo
Programme Five: Meet Gilbert Matsabisa
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