Since we moved to Nalerigu in 2014, I’ve attended the Damba Festival at the NaYiri’s palace every year. It is the penultimate cultural event in Mamprugu. This year when Damba was held in Nalerigu on November 18th, a large group attended from Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Leading them was the Gbangraana […]
Reunion with BMC Alumni
With the 60th Anniversary of BMC this week, we’ve had lots of BMC Alumni return to attend the celebration and greet their friends. We’ve had the privilege of working in the past with everyone that returned so we were happy to have a brief reunion with them this week. They included: Dr. Earl Hewitt Dr. […]
Denice’s 2018 Annual Easter Egg Hunt & One at Home
Easter came around again and that meant a visit to Nakpanduri for Ms. Denise’s annual easter egg hunt ! I lose track of how many years she has been doing this but it’s over 30 and each year we make sure we attend (2017, 2016, 2015). In addition to the BMC families, this year we […]
Visit to Namoori Escarpment
Whenever Dr. Vince “Tiiya” Waite comes to town, I take him out to Namoori to visit his old friend who is chief of that village. Often we go out to the Gambaga Escarpment just north of there after visiting with the chief and enjoying a meal together. Several of his courtiers guided us and took […]
Snake Skin at the Escarpment
The Hauns find a MASSIVE snake skin at the Gambaga Escarpment
Denice’s 2017 Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Once again, our dear friend Denise held her annual Easter Egg hunt at her residence in Nakpanduri. This year we had quite a crowd with all the volunteers that were at BMC. The kids split up by age and KJ joined the Cahill girls in the tree nursery to hunt for eggs. After the hunt […]
Ms. Denise and Her Animals’ Holiday Cheer
For the last two years we’ve gone hiking at Nakpanduri and visited Ms. Denise on Boxing Day. This year Heidi had an emergency surgery to do that took a lot more time than expected. So we waited until the 27th to visit Denise at Nakpanduri. As is her tradition, she had her many animals decorated […]
Denice’s 2016 Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Every year, Ms. Denise holds an Easter egg hunt & potluck dinner at her place in Nakpanduri. This year we had quite a crowd gathered at her place: us, the Cahill family, the Van Dingenen family, Tim & Phoebe, Jakob & Feli, four Belgian nurses, a Canadian volunteer and a Mennonite family. It was a great […]
Germans
Jakob (left) and Felicitas (center) are two young German volunteers living in our small town. They serve with a small German NGO program that acts a bit like the US PeaceCorps. After graduating highschool they can volunteer to serve a year abroad. Most go to South America, but two are posted each year to Nalerigu […]