Hello everyone,

I have now returned from Sene District and am in Kumasi. Today we finished our last day of research and training, which all went very well…..big relief. So another really cool story about U2H. My boss and I had a meeting with the Provost of Health Sciences, the Dean of the Medical School, the dept. chair for Obgyn, Public relations officer today. We were doing a press release/photo type of thing and the dean was speaking about UM/Ghana relations. He started talking about the pulse/ox and surgical tools that we donated to KATH! Then he started laughing and was like wait are you the same person that donated them from Children of Abraham? It was a crazy coincidence as I hadn’t met with him in over a year. They are still using the pulse-ox though and it was obviously a much appreciated item!

I have lots of updates to give on our Ghana stuff. I was able to meet with Joel yesterday and interview him. He started talking about where he lives. He lives by himself and has to talk on his crippled hands to get inside. Everytime he has to go to the bathroom, his manager/best friend who lives about a mile away has to come over and bring him to his house as Joel does not have a toilet. He said with the extra money we could help him to earn, he will hopefully be able to buy a toilet one day. He also hopes he can get a new wheelchair as the one he has is basically falling apart……operations want to take care of that one? Of course I have pictures and video of our interview.

love,

jp

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