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Ghana- Planning for Next Month [1]

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Date: 2023-08-29

August has been a very hard month for my friend John in Ghana but we got everyone through. The only one we weren’t able to help was little Melbourne’s father, who is in prison for driving a taxi without a license in an attempt to earn money to support his family. He is in dire need, without food or medical help, but we simply ran out of money.

But is almost a new month and it is time to think what we will do for the future. Hopefully John’s health can hold so that we can take care of some other things that we have been trying to work on.

John is currently getting information on some of the young artists he is helping in Accra. He has given them the task of listing their basic data- names, ages, nationality and tribes and so forth. Then he will take photos of them and we will list them all on the website of our non-profit. I don’t know much about that, it is being handled mostly by John and my partner. That is a work in progress, we will see how it goes.

Anabel, the abandoned four-year old girl we have been caring for, still needs to get enrolled in school. Her mother is an addict and is simply incapable of caring for her.

I had thought we could help the mother so that Anabel could go back to her but John told me last night that she is still using drugs and there is not much we can do until she decides on her own to stop. Anabel is simply not safe with her. So for the time being Anabel will have to stay at the childcare place.

But she does need to get her schooling. The madam is insisting and if Anabel is to have any future she must be educated. That is about 1200 cedis, which is not undoable but of course limited money stretches only so far. But this will have to be done this month.

Haddi, Zenabu and little baby Vicky are very poor. Haddi and Zenabu have asked for the money to buy a small refrigerator. They want to sell ice water and something called ice kenny. That one I had to look up. Apparently it is a popular Ghanaian drink, an equivalent to a shake or a smoothie.

I am not sure it is practical for them to make and sell but I appreciate their attempts to do something to get out of poverty and make some money. And of course having a refrigerator is always a good thing, especially when they have a little baby girl. But it is expensive.

I am thinking about it.

Hopefully this coming month we can get John’s brother Joshua off the streets. That is something that is always chewing at my heart. I hate that we have abandoned him for so long but others have had life-threatening emergencies and the first rule is to keep everyone alive.

John just told me that his oldest daughter Josephine just graduated from junior high school and they want her to live with John’s parents while she attends senior high. She was raised by her mother in a village some distance from Accra. She is a very charming, beautiful young woman and very devoted to her daddy. When she was younger she once actually rented a taxi all by herself and had the driver take her halfway across Ghana to be with John. She will love finally living closer to him.

Well, there is always work to do. Hopefully there will be no emergencies this month so that we can get on to moving forward with everyone.

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