Category Yendi Notes

Guest Author: Charity Holladay We have been a bit sleep deprived today. Faith and I went to bed around 10:45pm and thought we would be asleep right away.  Nope! We were wrong. Our jet lag caught up with us.  We were up laughing… Continue Reading →

Guest Author: Jordan Taylor Greetings from Yendi!  Our 7:00 AM wakeup seemed to come earlier than usual due to the 5-hour time difference. We were finally able to wrest ourselves from the bed and begin our day. Kandie (Mom) told us last… Continue Reading →

We made it to Accra this afternoon at about 3:00.  We could have taken an earlier flight but we had some business to do in Tamale.  We had to drop off the paperwork at the auditor’s office.  We were in… Continue Reading →

Zorash called to let us know that she was going to be late coming to work today; normally that would annoy me but I was happy today because today was Yendi’s big market day. I needed her to go with… Continue Reading →

Mr. Iddrisu came to us today and said that he had no food in his house.  He said that he had used all of his money and all of the loan money we had given him to buy the things… Continue Reading →

We got rain last night!  It was wonderful; we stood outside and watched it rain!  We have not had any rain since last October.  It took a while for the rain to clean off the roof and the gutters before… Continue Reading →

Around 8:45 this morning Kandie and I were preparing to leave for the village of Duuni when Timothy Niligrini called. He said he had forgot to bring the bread and juice so if we didn’t have any he would have… Continue Reading →

I am trying an experiment.  I have a recipe for an apricot nectar cake that my friend Milly gave me over 20 years ago.  It is delicious!  I got to thinking that if apricot nectar makes a wonderful cake then… Continue Reading →

As soon as we finished our walk this morning we cleaned off the kitchen’s island; covered it with Saran wrap, sharpened the knives, got out the meat grinder and meat tenderizer, grabbed large plastic bags and headed to the market. … Continue Reading →

We spent all morning working on our annual returns and the annual returns for the Child Center employees.  We thought that we were going to be able to knock it out quickly because we thought that everything was set up… Continue Reading →