Meet Katrina Moore. Katrina is a graduate student at NYU's food studies program, and spent 5 weeks in Ghana recently that changed her life. She's now started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary about Shekhinah Clinic, which offers free healthcare and meals to the mentally ill and handicapped of Tamale, Ghana. The film will center around the charismatic Dr. David Abdulai. After studying and practicing medicine in the United Kingdom and Austria, Dr. Abdulai returned to his hometown of Tamale with his wife, Doris, to start Shekhinah Clinic, a free clinic for anyone who cannot afford medical care. Together, David and Doris Abdulai, along with a team of volunteers, provide healthcare and daily meals to over 200 of the city's destitute. Listen to this special recording as host Leah Eden chats with Katrina about how the idea for the film came about and what her experiences were like while in Ghana. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.

"The thing about making a documentary is you don't know what's going to happen until you get there! That's part of the fun and excitement - we know the story and what they do but we have no idea how they will react to being filmed." [04:00]

--Katrina Moore on HeritageRadioNetwork.org

On this week's episode of Straight From the Source, host Clay Gordon is joined by Gino Dalla Gasperina, founder of Meridian Cacao, a brand new boutique cocoa brokerage firm created specifically to cater to the needs of startup hobbyist and smaller craft chocolate makers looking to source high-quality beans, but don't have the resources to buy tons at a time. Find out what motivated Gino to start the business and hear some of the challenges of direct sourcing cacao. Learn more about cacao production in Trinidad and Tobago and the differences between direct model and fairtrade and other certification models.This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.

"There's so many different ways to alleviate yourself from poverty in Trinidad, but there is not too much incentive to be in the agriculture industry."

"Tobago 80 years ago was a thriving cacao producer and since then has become absent."

"The price of fine flavor cacao is so ambiguous. It cannot be pegged to a trader's commodity."

--Gino Dalla Gasperina, founder of Meridian Cacao on Straight From the Source

This week on U Look Hungry, host Helen Hollyman sits and chats with Brian Shimkovitz, the man behind the rare African music influenced blog/record label "Awesome Tapes from Africa". Brian explains what brought him to Ghana and compelled him to chronicle, document and share the lo-fi music he found (mostly on cassette tapes) online with music lovers and crate digging junkies. Hear about some of the interesting foods and drinks he came across in his travels and hear what plans are ahead for the record label component of his successful ethnomusical experiment. This program was sponsored by Tekserve.

"I never imagined there would be a way to go on dad's computer and hear so much crazy art and see so many interesting things."

--Brian Shimkovitz of Awesome Tapes of Africa on U Look Hungry