Category Yendi Notes

The guy with “Hepatitis B” passed away this afternoon.  He was in terrible shape when we visited him at the hospital on Tuesday.  His liver has barely functioning and his blood count was awful.  He has been in grave condition… Continue Reading →

I have the most amazing story to tell you.  This morning a young mother came to the Child Center.  This is the first time that we saw her.  She had a 1 year old baby that is mentally and developmentally… Continue Reading →

It was raining when we first got up so most of the workers did not show up until about 9:30.  Zorash brought a lady with her; she is Papa Painter’s daughter.  Papa Painter painted for the Child Center for many years. … Continue Reading →

The electricity was off and on so much last night that I finally got up and turned the air conditioner off and unplugged the computers and printers because that on and off, high and low electricity is terrible for electrical… Continue Reading →

Our destination this morning was the village of Sakpei, located east of Yendi. It takes about an hour and fifteen minutes to get there. The roads are not in good shape especially when we turn off the main Gnani Road… Continue Reading →

We woke to the sound of “no electricity”.  It is very strange that you can be asleep in a dark room and be woken up by the electricity going off and everything being so very quiet.  I guess it is… Continue Reading →

Mr. Iddrisu got the bandages off his eye and he said that probably more than 300 people were there for their operation.  He said that today he could see clearly and that everything was bright and he was so happy… Continue Reading →

The number of mothers that came to the Center this morning was up compared to yesterday.  We had 159 again today.  We ran out of clothes for the big kids so we started passing out book bags.  They were thrilled… Continue Reading →

Today’s holiday celebrated Kwame Nkrumah.  I think he was the first president of Ghana.  Since it was a holiday the clinic near us was not open.  This clinic is where most of the women go to get immunizations for their… Continue Reading →

Pure joy!  That is the only way to describe the expression on Khadija’s face this afternoon when we delivered the handicapped tricycle!  As soon as she saw the tricycle she came crawling out of the house in the crab-like way… Continue Reading →