28th August 2018
Yendi Notes
Zorash, the receptionist for the Child Center was late coming to work this morning. I never really figured out what she was doing but it had something to do with her little shea butter company. Many of the women in this area go to the bush and pick up shea nuts which they process into shea butter which is a long tedious affair. Zorash buys the shea butter from them, weighs and packages it for shipment to the UK. This is the time the women are making shea butter so sometimes she runs late dealing with the women. Zorash even added a room onto her family’s house so she would have a place to keep the shea butter until she had enough to send a container. She is just a middle man for the lady in the UK.
Nazo told us that his wife Amina had been seriously ill with a headache, neck and chest pain. We found out that she has high blood pressure and does not like to take the medicine. Steve educated Nazo and Mr. Iddrisu on the importance of getting her blood pressure under control and the dangers of uncontrolled high blood pressure. We tried to get Nazo to take her to the hospital but he refused. He said yesterday evening a nurse that is a friend of his came to the house and gave her 3 doses of medicine intravenously, a shot in her buttock, and some tablets to take. He had no idea what the medicines were or what they were supposed to do for her. Such is medicine in Ghana! He said the Amina was feeling some better this morning and that the nurse was coming back today to check on her.
The man with the mentally disabled child brought the 9 year old boy to see us this morning. We gave him a soccer ball. Everyone in Ghana loves soccer. It is funny because they don’t call it soccer; they call it football. While they were here Steve call Mr. Alhassan the social welfare man. Mr. Alhassan came to the Child Center and got the child registered under the mental health system. The boy’s family would like for him to go to school but the special school is in the southern part of Ghana and they only board the children through the week. It would be near unto impossible for them to make that 14 hour trip back and forth to Accra twice a week.
Zorash just called and told us that we should stay in at the mission house and not go to town because they had someone in town was shooting; they think that it was armed robbers. She was afraid we were already in town and she wanted to make sure that we were safe. I guess they do love us!
This afternoon we got the pump that runs from the reservoir to the big poly tanks running and got the tanks refilled. We have an abundance of rain water right now. We treat the water with chlorine when we pump it into the tank.
Thank you for all you do for us. My brother Buz who has ALS is supposed to get his feeding tube tomorrow. Please keep him and his family in your prayers! I know they will appreciate them!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
