Category Yendi Notes

This morning we started passing out the girl dresses that some of the church ladies made for the children.  Let me tell you the mothers were so proud to get the dresses.  We had rain caps and rubber blow up… Continue Reading →

We had to go back to Tamale today.  We worked in the Center until about 11:00 and then headed to Tamale.  We were going back to the Land Commission office to try and finish the paper work on the land papers.   We… Continue Reading →

Five sets of twins came to the Child Center this morning.  Three sets were older babies but we also had 2 new sets.  Speaking of twins; one of the church members from Kakpande has had 2 sets of twins back… Continue Reading →

Divine stopped at the mission house early this morning on his way to Tamale with the documents to deliver at the Registrar General’s office.  He called this afternoon and said that the man he was supposed to see was sick… Continue Reading →

We received a call from Timothy Niligrini early this morning saying his neighbor needed to go to Yendi Hospital. From the way he described the man’s symptoms we suspected meningitis (CSM). I had the pickup all ready to go for… Continue Reading →

The high temperature today was 108 degrees and we sat outside from 10:30 this morning until 2:30 this afternoon.  We were attending a funeral in the village of Nalongni.  This was one of the annual group funerals.  The village was… Continue Reading →

I think I will start calling these the “Tamale Notes” instead of the “Yendi Notes”!  We went back to Tamale this afternoon to pick up the “Letter of Commit” only to find out it was really a “Letter of Comment”! … Continue Reading →

Rita, Timothy Niligrini’s wife had their baby yesterday afternoon.  It was another girl.  This makes 3 girls and 1 boy for them.  Timothy thought that they were going to keep Rita overnight because they had given her some sort of… Continue Reading →

It has tried to rain off and on today but it only managed to sprinkle a little.  The ladies that work here are complaining about no rain and the lack of water.  When the rain comes they all collect rain… Continue Reading →

We spent another day in Tamale.  We thought that we were just going to go over and get a copy of the deed search and move to the last step in the process but we were wrong.  When we got… Continue Reading →