Category Yendi Notes

We are still in Tamale!  We are not all that happy to be here but here we are all the same!  As we were leaving the hotel this morning Belvin, the Indian manager, met us.  He knew about the trouble… Continue Reading →

We left the mission house shortly after 6:00 this morning.  We headed to Tamale; our main purpose in coming to Tamale was to turn in the Social Welfare report for the renewal of the Child Center’s license.  We drove 2… Continue Reading →

We have a floor in one of the toilet pits!  Yeah!  The block molder only molded 450 blocks today; they are going to come back tomorrow and mold the remaining 150 blocks.  They had already left for the day by… Continue Reading →

The men molded 625 blocks today; John, the mason in charge, said that the men knew their work but they troubled him too much!  He said that as soon as they arrived at the jobsite, they demanded chop money.  Chop… Continue Reading →

We took the sump pump out to Kulkpeni first thing this morning so that we could pump the water out of the toilet pit but they had no electricity.  Timothy Niligrini said that it went off last night.  They said… Continue Reading →

Timothy Niligrini arrived at the compound earlier than I had expected this morning. We were sluggish in getting ourselves around but we still managed to get away from the compound at 8:15. I wish we (Kandie and I) had been faster… Continue Reading →

When they stopped digging the pit yesterday it did not have water in the bottom but today when they continued digging the pit started oozing water.  They wanted to make the pit 6 feet deep; I am not sure how… Continue Reading →

They started digging the pit for the first toilet this morning.  John hired some men to uproot the bushes that were used for many years to demarcate the land.  We had to hire a motor king to haul the roots… Continue Reading →

Almost every day, John the mason tells us that he is going to finish the wall tomorrow.  Everyone that sees the wall says that the wall is going to keep the people out and keep them from pooping on the… Continue Reading →

The masons have more than half of the wall around Kulkpeni church building finished.  I was a little disappointed when we went to check on the work today because they have raised the wall several courses.  When we questioned them… Continue Reading →