Category Yendi Notes

Red just left.  We are trying to get everything organized so that Dawda the mason can start the wall on Monday.  Red has a friend that will sell us the cement for 1 cedi less than the other vendors.  I… Continue Reading →

“I did nothing but sit, sit, sit all day long!”  We went to Tamale today to do business.  Most of the business was done by Steve and I sat in the truck.  I was not idle while I sat there;… Continue Reading →

First thing this morning Steve went to the GRA (Ghana Revenue Authority) office to try to get a new Tax Clearance Certificate.  The one we got last year has expired and we know that we will need it for the… Continue Reading →

Today has an unusual date: 2/22/22.  I wonder how often that happens.  It must be a sign!  Something special or something especially awful must be going to happen!  That is how superstitious  people think.  Ha! We are happy that Zorash… Continue Reading →

Shamuna, the young boy that we helped get a new prosthesis for his leg came to the Child Center this morning to show off his new leg.  He is as proud of the new leg as our children are when… Continue Reading →

Let me begin by saying everything was going smoothly today until the green truck died. It happened just as we were coming into Yendi after coming from the bush. As I was stopping to let a male hitchhiker get out… Continue Reading →

Amama came to work this morning to make up for the day she was off earlier in the week.  It was very nice to have someone to mop the floors for us. Yendi is working on a huge project to… Continue Reading →

God is so good to Ghana!  Here we sit in the middle of the dry season; Yendi has not had any rain since the end of October and the mango trees are loaded with fruit!  It is amazing that a… Continue Reading →

The high temperature today was 105 degrees.  The humidity was low so the heat index was only 107 degrees.  The Harmattan was not so thick and we even saw a few clouds.  We love seeing the clouds because it makes… Continue Reading →

While we were working in the Child Center this morning we got a visit from a young man that was setting himself up in a small business giving out micro loans to the women in and around his community.  He… Continue Reading →