Just a quick note --- We have 2 months left here in Ghana. Maybe it is because we now kind of know what we are doing, but we are sooo busy.
We will head north next week for 5 days, with E/S Kimball (short term specialists from Utah) to visit families who are taking place in our member chicken project. They have received their hens who are now laying eggs, and they are able to sell the eggs. Each family was to get 50 hens but some got less, for now, because the chickens died due to poor delivery service. Overall, the projects is looking good and when we travel next week we will meet more families for the second phase of the project.
March 12th we will head to Cote D'Voire (Ivory Coast) for a week - also with the Kimballs. We hope to develop a chicken project there and we are also looking for a water project in Ivory Coast for 2015 and we need to find a couple of members there that can monitor the project for us since no couples serve there. E/S Panter will work on that project after we finish our mission.
We had a conference call this afternoon with SLC and 5 men here with Ghana 4H. Yes, they have 4H here. We will do a project to help support them and SLC really seemed to like it. It will be what is called a 'Benson' project. They are starting 4H clubs in some schools here and teaching gardening and other things.
Our Trauma training project is moving along but there is much preparation to be done so the training team won't likely come over for a few months. Too bad we won't be here since this is all Jim's ideas that got it going. It should do really well and then the concept will be used elsewhere. Headquarters really liked the whole idea from the start.
We are preparing a project to drill 2 wells at a hospital and we hope to see that get done before we leave. We are submitted a project in the morning to help an NGO that takes a mobile clinic out to rural communities. We were impressed with them and what they are doing. One community they are going to in April is nicknamed "Witch's Camp" where people are sent when they are suspected of causing property damage, death etc. through witchcraft. Also children that are born with disabilities are sent to live there and the family may go with them. So sad.
It is up in the northern part of Ghana.
We have other projects going to and will try and get as many closed as we can before we finish up. Another couple has been called to replace us and will arrive a couple of weeks after we leave. We don't know who they are yet, but are really glad someone is coming. There is so much to do.
We are doing well and looking forward to being home with family and friends in the near future. Please make sure that spring is in the air when we get there. ;)
Love to all,
Elder and Sister Bullock
