Divine, the evangelist / farmer / teacher from Kpamang sent a message to let us know that all the painting on the school kitchen and church building was finished. He needed the labor money. Steve sent it to him through MTN mobile money. We love that mobile money. Now we are not sure how secure it is but it sure has made our lives easier.
Last night armed robbers attacked and robbed a market truck that was carrying the market ladies back to their village. They set up a road block just on the outskirts of Yendi. Usually they attack far away from the towns; seems like they are getting bolder and bolder. At least this time no one got shot. It happened about 9:00 last night. The government has set up road blocks and in some areas over in the Upper West part of Ghana they have army escorts through the most dangerous sections. If there are no escorts available you have to park your car and sleep in it until morning. We try our best not to travel after dark. Of course that means we have to spend a little more money on hotels if we get stuck in Tamale too late but it is safer.
We provide sunscreen for the albino children in this area. There is a family over in Gnani that has 3 albino children. The family also has children that are not albinos. Their oldest brother Baba is the one that comes to Yendi most of the time to get the sunscreen lotion. He came this morning and he brought 2 new albinos. The new albinos were brothers. They were not fully albino; they had a little pigment in their skin. They were almost the same color as I am. Their hair was blond. They were very happy to get the sunscreen. Baba brought us a gift of 10 tubers of yams and a guinea fowl as a way of saying “Thank You” for the years we have been giving his brothers and sister sunscreen. We gave all those that came this morning ball caps and we sent caps with Baba to give to his siblings. Steve also gave them a little money to buy some lunch.
They had barely gotten out of the compound when Nazo asked if we wanted him to kill the guinea fowl or put it in the pen. We could tell the workers really wanted to eat him right now. Usually when someone gives us a gift for helping their child we share the gift with the workers. We asked Amama and Zorash if there was time before they left to cook the guinea fowl and make Fufu and light soup to share as a noon day meal. Of course there was “more time!” The girls started rushing around grabbing pots and pans while I gathered up the ingredients for the light soup; it consists of guinea fowl (head, feet, and the giblets), garden eggs (like a small egg plant), tomatoes, onions, hot pepper, garlic and spices. We all dined sumptuously!
Please keep us in your prayers and please pray for our good friends Kim and Carolyn Hill; we just learned that Carolyn’s mother and brother passed away.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
