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 from last year but surprise, surprise things were not totally up the way we expected them to be and it looked like the employees were going to owe taxes which is not the way it should be. We spent some time in the GRA (IRS) office and got the answers to most of our questions. They said there was a glitch in the program and were refiguring the basic salary at a different rate. After all was done and said we were told to go ahead and file and the manager would make the necessary deductions so no one should have to pay. We also found out that the taxes are not due until the last day of April so we are thinking of putting them on the back burner and waiting a little while in hopes that they will get the problems worked out with the system.
While we were in town we went to the market and did a little shopping and then we picked up the VELD stickers for some of the vehicles. You know we have to pay to prove that they are road worthy; if you could only see some of the vehicles that are being driven around. We saw a cargo truck a few days ago that had no front window; there were 4 people sitting in the front seat and a bunch of people in the bed of the truck sitting on the goods they were taking to market.
Did I tell you that the doctors have finally decided to take Warihana’s leg off? She is the teenage girl that has Osteomyelitis in the big bone in her lower leg. Warihana’s father brought her to see us in May of 2019; at that time she had already had the problem and had been treated for a couple years. She is the one that last year they decided to take her to the Juju (witchdoctor) and do some local treatment. The family has exhausted all of their resources; the child has had 3 surgeries to open and remove dead bone. She is supposed to have the surgery on the 21st of March. Thanks to our generous donors we will be able to help her get an artificial leg after it heals. The medical system here is very strange; the hospital gave them the cost of the surgery and then they gave the family a list of all the supplies they will need for the surgery; gauze, bandages, ace type wraps and so many other things. The family will also be responsible for the medicine she will take while she is in the hospital. Please pray that everything goes well for her.
If you remember Mr. Iddrisu’s mother broke her leg a week or so ago; she is not doing too well; she has developed a bed sore from sitting on the ground all day long. Steve gave Mr. Iddrisu ointment, bandage and advice to make sure that his mother was moved every 30 minutes to 1 hour. He said she refuses to let them move her; I don’t blame her; her leg is broken and it has never been set. It has to be painful to be moved.
Thank you for everything!
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
