It is 10:00pm and we just finished the Child Center’s audit! Happy Day! We have been working on it almost all day! Our biggest problem was the exchange rate. The rate has been going up so fast. It is good for us but terrible for the country! If the dollar climbs against the Cedi it is helpful to us as the price of things skyrocket. The problem for us is that once the money from the states gets deposited into the bank it turns to Cedis and is stuck at the rate at which it came in. At least that job is finished for another year. We are going to Tamale tomorrow to take it to the auditor’s office. They call him an auditor but he is more like an accountant that compiles the expenditures and files them for us.
Zorash did not come to work this morning; she got in from her trip to Accra early this morning but some of the people from the wedding came with her and she had to cook for them. I would have let them fend for themselves but in this culture that would be considered extremely rude!
This morning Amama put the corn in the water to start fermenting. The corn will be turned into porridge to serve for breakfast at the seminar on Friday morning. The fermented corn porridge is just something we have not acquired a taste for yet! After it has fermented we will take it to the grinding mill and grind it with ginger and cloves. Yum! Yum!
Red got the new floor for the toilet house at Kulkpeni installed this morning. Steve will have to take his electric drill and some sheet metal screws out to Kulkpeni and secure it to the old floor.
Nazo came back from working on the Ya-Na’s farm. He said that the farm was about 300 acres and that it was all corn except for a couple acres of soybeans. Last year the chief gave Nazo a bag of shelled corn which is a very nice gift; not sure that it is worth all the hard work.
Today the mother of one of the sets of triplets came to the Child Center. The babies are looking fine; they are about 4 months old and looking so nice. One of the babies had a serious rash on her hand so Steve asked them to go and have the doctor take a look at it.
The road crew has started demolishing the buildings and pushing down the trees on the main road through Yendi. Originally they were going to make a double road through Yendi but the government ran short on money so they changed to making a single road. It really looks strange to drive to town and see no vendors along the road!
Thank you for the prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
