We are pooped!  We have been at Kulkpeni all day long.  We are proud to announce we got everything that was on our list finished.  Joshua, Timothy Niligrini, Tichak, Kwabena, Mr. Iddrisu and Nazo helped us.  We painted 3 buildings… Continue Reading →

One of the hair-lipped babies that had the repair surgery earlier this year has gone back for the second part of the surgery.   This time they are going to fix the baby’s cleft pallet.  The mother is not nearly as… Continue Reading →

Meri had her baby in the wee hours of the morning.  She is already home!  The mothers are not allowed to stay in the hospital very long.  The baby was a girl but no one knows the name yet.  It… Continue Reading →

We visited the village of Niliyundo this morning. The village is located south of Yendi in the Nanumba District.  After turning off of the Bimbilla Road the village is approximately 8 miles off into the bush. Yesterday I bought 6… Continue Reading →

As soon as we finished our walk this morning we started making more diaper rash ointment for the babies at the Child Center.  We wanted to get all the ointment made that the Center would need for this month and… Continue Reading →

The electricity was off for a while this afternoon / evening which would be very annoying but we have a generator that makes life much easier! We were at the bank a few minutes after they opened this morning.  We… Continue Reading →

Kandie and I were on the road by 6:30 this morning. Our destination for the day was Tamale.  We had a lot of business that needed to be done.  Our first stop was Japan Motors to drop off the blue… Continue Reading →

The air conditioner man got the window air conditioner fixed.  Now we can eat cool again.  This little unit is in one of the bedrooms of the main house.  Several years ago we turned this room into a little office,… Continue Reading →

Happy Halloween!  No one celebrates Halloween in this area even though most of them believe in witches, spirits, dwarfs (sort of like Leprechauns) and all sorts of magic and mystical stuff.  I think I will dress up like a “missionary”!… Continue Reading →

Yesterday we went to town to look for a new belt for my sewing machine.  We had to ask several people before we found one.  Talk about “language barrier”!  One guy tried to tell us where to go and this… Continue Reading →