Category Yendi Notes

An abandoned baby was brought to the Child Center this morning.  The lady that brought the baby said that she found the baby in the bushes on the side of the dirt road that is near her house.  She said… Continue Reading →

Steve has been fighting with the battery in the old van for a couple days!  He cannot seem to get it to keep  a charge.  Late this afternoon he gave up and put in a different battery.  A few minutes… Continue Reading →

The roads we traveled today were treacherous;   covered with big potholes that were filled with rain water from last night’s storm. We traveled about 15 miles to Kpanjamba located east of Yendi.  One pothole was so deep I was afraid… Continue Reading →

We washed a couple loads of clothes before we went to town to watch the butcher make his special packets of entrails.   He had slaughtered 2 goats already this morning.  He had one of them skinned, gutted and hanging when… Continue Reading →

We were surprised to see Zorash come to work this morning.  She came to make up one of her days off earlier in the week.   We were happy to see her because Steve wanted to take some things to the… Continue Reading →

Steve had to refer a baby to the hospital today; he suspects that the child might be hydrocephalic.   He measured the baby’s head and it was larger than it should be for her age.  The mother also said that she… Continue Reading →

Even though the pandemic continues to cause a disruption of our usual way of life we were thankful we were able to resume some of the things that we missed out on doing last year.  The month of July is… Continue Reading →

Red made the cutest “yard art” birds.  We had seen some in Accra a few years ago; he said that he could make them.  They are almost 4 feet tall.  They are made from scrap metal.  Their bodies are made… Continue Reading →

Thirty-two babies came to the Child Center this morning.  Steve and Meri (one of the interpreters) saw all the babies by themselves because Zorash had the day off and I was in my room working on a quilt.  I would… Continue Reading →

The mother of the little 2 year old little girl that had the hernia repaired called Zorash and said that the surgery had been a success and that they had been discharged from the hospital in Accra and transferred back… Continue Reading →