Category Yendi Notes

The little guy we started feeding last week died.  He is the one that we struggled and struggled to get him to drink just a couple tablespoons of formula.  He had been in the hospital and was just strong enough… Continue Reading →

Poor Steve spent almost the whole morning in the Tax office with Mr. Iddrisu.  We are not going to be here the next 2 months to file the employee taxes on line so today was a trial run to see… Continue Reading →

Today we worked on the receipts yet again!  We think we are just about ready to go pay the GRA taxes on the workers and the withholding tax.  We needed the Tax ID number for the vendor that we buy… Continue Reading →

Timothy Niligrini stopped by this afternoon; he wanted to borrow some money to pay for medical test that he was having done.  Of course Steve just gave him the money.  He said that he has been having some headaches and… Continue Reading →

We traveled to the village of Mpeasum this morning to worship with the congregation. Mpeasum is located in the Nanumba North District located south of Yendi. The new road, better known as the Eastern Corridor, made the trip smoother and… Continue Reading →

Red just left; he came to get the money he will need to make the metal doors, windows and metal frames for the cement pillars for the building we will be building next time we come to Ghana.  We have… Continue Reading →

We finally got Mr. Iddrisu to the eye doctor this morning.  The man seems like he is almost blind.  He kept asking for stronger and stronger reading glasses which we could not imagine that he needed.  He is near-sighted too,… Continue Reading →

Steve had to refer a little baby to the hospital today.  When the baby was born it weighed 2.5 kilo and today, 2 months later, the baby only weighed 2.0 kilos.  The mother said that she had breast milk but… Continue Reading →

Meri said that her son Aliu, the teenager that is in the hospital with what appears to be a stroke is not doing very well.  Meri said that he still cannot walk; in fact she said that he cannot even… Continue Reading →

Nazo did not come to work this morning.  The Ya Na, the king of Dagbon, called all the men that are associated with the palace to go and work on his farm.  I guess they were planting today.  It must… Continue Reading →