Category Yendi Notes

It has been terribly hot here today.  The high temperature was 110 degrees with a heat index of 122 degrees.  Even the Ghanaians are complaining about how hot it is and if they are complaining you know it is HOT! … Continue Reading →

The headlines in Ghana’s Daily Graphic newspaper states “Parliament passes bill criminalizing LGBT activities in Ghana”!  Imagine that!  The article goes on to say “Ghana’s Parliament has approved a bill aimed at promoting human sexual rights and family values, commonly… Continue Reading →

Does anybody know anyone that was born on Leap Year?  I think it would be rather cool to be a Leap Year baby; imagine how slowly you would age if you really counted your actual birthday days. The workers were… Continue Reading →

I am not sure that I have ever been able to say this before but “We got everything checked off our “To Do List” while we were in Tamale this time!”  You cannot imagine how exciting it is not to… Continue Reading →

We are spending the night in Tamale because we have lots of business to do.  Steve has to renew his Ghanaian nurses license, we have to visit the lawyer, pick up the Child Center’s yearly license, go to the accountant… Continue Reading →

Amama came back to work this morning; if you remember she had been off last week because someone in her family died.  It was good to have her back but we were still understaffed because Meri took the week off… Continue Reading →

Our area of town had a wind squall come up last night that dropped just enough rain where the water mixed with the dust   to mess up the green pickup’s windshield after I had cleaned them yesterday. We hoped for… Continue Reading →

On Wednesday evening when we got to the hotel in Accra Steve opened the email and we had a note from our bank in the states.  We usually come to Ghana with quite a bit of money; both from donations and… Continue Reading →

We are back in Yendi; it was shortly after 8:00pm when we arrived at the mission house.  We were not happy that we had to drive after dark but our flight from Accra to Tamale was delayed by more than 2 hours. … Continue Reading →

We hired a driver and his car this morning and got up early so we could go up into the mountains outside of Accra to see what the carvers had to sell.  We also went up to the town of… Continue Reading →