Wow! I haven't written for quite a while. We have had a busy month but I do need to keep up with my emails, blog, etc.
We had a Couple's seminar in Accra with our humanitarian couples from Liberia and Sierra Leone. It was a great few days. Both couples (Devers and Seaders) were pretty new to the mission so we had a lot of basic training and discussion. We all learned a lot and had a good time together. Elder and Sister Kimball (short term specialists) were here for a couple of weeks and also took part in our seminar.
Before the seminar we went to Oda and Asamankese (northwest of here) to look into a possible chicken project with the Kimballs and Brother Buah. We had a great time together and Kimballs did some training with leadership there and we met families that will be part of the chicken project. Elder Kimball wrote up the project and it has been approved by Salt Lake. 10 families will each receive 50 laying hens. Before that happens though, they will build pens, buy a month's supply of feed, and one person from each family will come here to the University Farm and spend 6 days learning about how to care for the chickens. We are excited about this project and the prospect that it can help these families become self reliant. The families are members of the church -- this is the one area where LDS Charities helps members. The picture is of one family who will receive chickens. (some extended family also got in the picture).
While Kimballs were here we also looked at a possible family pig project and the raising of grasscutters (photo). I had never heard of grasscutters before coming here but they actually sell them in the grocery store. We haven't eaten any. ;)
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