Thursday and Friday

For the past few days, apart from nursing a broken heart, I’ve been working on a report to send to the Ghana AIDS Commission as well as the budget for the clinics. Today we went to town to meet with a supplier who is a friend of one of our nurses. He’s going to give us a very good deal and we left him with a list of the things we need, so we’ll pick up an invoice on Monday.

The report is on a project that RUCNET ran before I got here that took an economic approach to HIV/AIDS prevention with the theory being that women who were economically independent would be less susceptible to getting AIDS. It involved education and micro-credit. From writing this report, I can conclude that the project was somewhat successful. The one problem has been the repayment of the micro-credit loans. They achieved the goal of making the first batch of women self-sufficient, but not enough has been repaid to make the project renewable. I am not sure as to why this is the case.

Traffic in Kumasi is terrible.

The End.

Not really. It’s now Friday night and I didn’t get to an internet cafe today, so this post continues. This morning I was working on the report for the AIDS Commission as well as more logistics for the college. In the afternoon, Grace and I travelled to the village where our first clinic will operate to see how things are coming along there. The place needs cleaning and paint but other than that, it’s pretty much ready to go.

I saw another kid get hit by a car today. Fortunately, he didn’t appear to be too badly hurt. The car that hit him wasn’t going all that fast and although he was crying, I think he was okay.

The End (probably for real).