Category Yendi Notes

It took us 5 hours to prepare the cow skin and tail.  We had to wash and scrub it 3 times Then we had to boil it for 3 hours until it was soft.  The cow skin has a very… Continue Reading →

I am so excited!  This morning Zorash went with us to the market and we bought a cow skin.  This cow skin is for eating.  It came with the tail!  Yum!  We did not want to buy the skin from… Continue Reading →

The masons finished putting up the new wall this afternoon, pouring the pillars.  They make wooden pillar boxes and put rebar forms inside the boxes then they fill the pillar boxes with cement.  They also finished removing the old foundation. … Continue Reading →

The masons took down almost all of the wall that was slated for demolition.  The only thing remaining is a bunch of rubble, the foundation and one block on top of the foundation.  We could not find the surveyor’s cement… Continue Reading →

Mr. Dawda, the mason, Red and a couple other men came this morning to help start the demolition on the part of the wall that has to come down.  Dawda was more than a little annoyed about having to take… Continue Reading →

Our day started early.  Timothy Niligrini was here at 7am as planned so we could leave for the Chereponi area where Nana Bekum lives and works with 6 congregations. Depending on road conditions it is a 2.5-3 hour trip one way. Today… Continue Reading →

Mr. Iddrisu was appalled when he came to work this morning and found out that we were going to have to pull down part of the wall so that the people could see around the corner.  He had never heard… Continue Reading →

We got a video a couple days ago of the little boy we sent to Nsawam.  He had severely clubbed feet; he also had a clubbed arm/hand and webbed fingers.  The doctors were able to straighten his legs and feet… Continue Reading →

Zorash called this morning to let us know that she was going to be late for work.  Steve could not help but tease her when she came because she is late for work almost every day.  He said, “Zorash, you… Continue Reading →

As soon as the workers got here this morning we told them that Abdulai Fusheni had died.  After a little bit of discussion as to what we should do for the family and the funeral we decided that we would… Continue Reading →