The architect finally called this morning and told us that we could come to the office at 9:00 this morning and pick up the drawings for the training center. We are on Ghana time and we knew that 9:00 does not necessarily mean 9:00. We arrived at the office at 9:15 and we were told that we should sit down and wait a little while. We saw the plans this morning but we did not get to take the plans with us. There are still things that they need to do with the plans before they can release them. Today we paid additional fees; we paid fees for the building permit, inspections, filing and administrative charges. Today’s visit cost more than what the architect charged. Today we paid about 350 dollars worth of charges which we would not have minded so much had we been given the building permit and permission to start the project but no, they said that it would take them at least 4 weeks to get everything done and give us our building permit. We told the architect that there were several things that we did not like about the plans; he said that small changes can be made as the building goes up but we cannot make any major changes and that the inspector would be coming periodically to make sure we were following the plans as they were set forth. Please, give me strength! Maybe it will be better to wait a while to start the building project so that we won’t have to worry so much about the rain.
I made a mistake on the Yendi Notes last night. Some of you might have already caught the mistake. I said the small malnourished baby weighed 7.5 kilos and that translated to around 3 pounds; I should have said that he weighed 13.5 pounds. Oops! Sorry about that! The baby weight was so low that when we went to chart his weight he was off the scale.
This morning we worked on enriching the peanut butter. We had to warm the peanut butter to get the sugar, salt and powder milk to mix in it. After we finished it was still slightly grainy but it tasted fine. I think when the mothers mix it with the children’s porridge it will finish melting.
Zorash said that nothing was solved at the peace keeping meeting yesterday. She said that the coordinators presented the information they gathered from the Konkombas and it was almost the same information and ideas that came from the Dagombas. I told her the problem was that all the people who attended the meeting from both tribes wanted peace and if they want to find out the real problems they need to talk to the men that are dissatisfied. They are going to gather in a few weeks and meet again.
We got some rain this afternoon; not enough for us to see if the dam Dawda built and the gravel that was redistributed helped but at least the crops are still getting rain. Traditionally September is the month that we get the heaviest rain.
Please keep us in your prayers.
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
