Category Yendi Notes

We are in Tamale.  We have almost run out of money.  We kept waiting for the man from the Registrar General’s office to call and tell us our documents were ready but he has failed us for the last 3… Continue Reading →

A very small malnourished baby came to the Child Center.  He was 2 years old and only weighed 4.4 kilos which is about 9.6 pounds.  He was so pitiful.  He was miserable.  He has several things working against him.  His… Continue Reading →

One of the big Acacia trees, (not sure of the spelling), in the backyard between the Child Center and the mission house has died.  It had a parasite sort of like mistletoe growing on it but we were not aware… Continue Reading →

Ramadan has started; it started yesterday.  Ramadan is the month long Muslim fasting time.  Ramadan comes once a year but not at the same time each year because they are on a lunar calendar so it jumps forward almost a… Continue Reading →

Last night we got a strong thunderstorm with winds that came.  After the winds subsided and it was just raining Kandie called me over to the front door and said “Look!”  The ground was littered with mangoes; about 2 bushels.  … Continue Reading →

We spent the bulk of the day working on the books and entering receipts.  We got all the small receipts entered but we did not get the figures tallied for the wall.  I am terrible with a calculator when my… Continue Reading →

It took us 5 hours to prepare the cow skin and tail.  We had to wash and scrub it 3 times Then we had to boil it for 3 hours until it was soft.  The cow skin has a very… Continue Reading →

I am so excited!  This morning Zorash went with us to the market and we bought a cow skin.  This cow skin is for eating.  It came with the tail!  Yum!  We did not want to buy the skin from… Continue Reading →

The masons finished putting up the new wall this afternoon, pouring the pillars.  They make wooden pillar boxes and put rebar forms inside the boxes then they fill the pillar boxes with cement.  They also finished removing the old foundation. … Continue Reading →

The masons took down almost all of the wall that was slated for demolition.  The only thing remaining is a bunch of rubble, the foundation and one block on top of the foundation.  We could not find the surveyor’s cement… Continue Reading →