Category Yendi Notes

Today is a national holiday; it is Ghana’s Independence Day.  She was a British colony and she gained her independence in 1957.  Yendi has a parade ground and children are selected from various schools to march in the parade.  Of… Continue Reading →

We had planned on helping the church at Kulkpeni build another building to be used for sleeping quarters when we have the seminar.  The church met and the men are afraid that the rain will come before they get the… Continue Reading →

It was another scorching day.  As I am writing this email at 4:15pm the thermometer is saying 1010F.  This is the kind of temperatures that we usually expect at this time of year. This coming Wednesday, the 6th, is Ghana’s Independence Day and… Continue Reading →

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 →