I caught a praying mantis on our front porch this past week and Trey built a house out of Legos for it. It eventually escaped from the toy house into our house so I asked Trey to release it outside. Unfortunately, he didn’t hold it properly and it gave him quite a sting. While a […]
Putting Up With Pink
The house we moved into in Ghana was previously occupied by a family with two teenage girls and a boy. Unfortunately, the boy’s room is full of stuff in storage so Trey had to occupy one of the girls’ rooms. There’s a whole lotta pink going on in there but Trey has been a good […]
The View Out Back
Our home for the next month is on the south edge of the hospital campus. Looking south across the fence is a large grassy field in which we regularly see goats, sheep, cattle, and donkeys grazing.
Don’t Touch My Goat
While we were finishing up lunch yesterday, Trey came running in and asked for help with the goats. He said they had somehow gotten themselves tied up in the grass and he couldn’t free them. We had to explain to him that it is common for farmers to tie their goats to clumps of grass. […]
Trey makes some friends
They’re called the “porch boys” – local kids that hang out on the porches of houses on the hospital compound to meet the volunteers that have come from the US. Usually they are hoping to score some treats from the US from the doctors and medical students. With Trey, they get more than hand outs. […]
Back in Ghana for a month
It’s been four years since I last visited Ghana, and five years since we came as a family. We are currently back in Ghana to volunteer at the Baptist Medical Centre in the Northern Region. Heidi has just finished her general surgery residency in the US and is excited about putting her training to good […]
George Faile Foundation Update
The Faile Foundation has sent out their Spring 2009 newsletter to their supporters and you can get it in PDF form online. Those of you that have purchased prints of my West Africa photographs have all directly supported this organization. Most people don’t realize that an incredible 99% of all donations to the Foundation go […]
BMC Stories hit the Baptist Press
The three stories Emily Peters wrote about the Baptist Medical Centre have been published on the GoWestAfrica.org website as well as by the Baptist Press. The BP has now distributed it to all its affiliates and the stories are popping up all over the web (and in some newspapers). I got an email from Mike […]
A Piece of MCCG in Ghana
I’ve been going through my photos from BMC and found one I forgot to post. This logo was on a bed sheet in the hospital and made me quite happy. Looks like at some point Heidi’s employer, the Medical Center of Central Georgia, donated some stuff to the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana. Keep […]