Thursday, July 19, 2012

Aketeyensua Village and Hateka Village

This week we went to Aketeyensua Village for two days. Hateka village for one morning and a pineapple farm for the afternoon.
Loved this little girl, she was such a snuggler :)

Just another example of the madness of roads here in Ghana.
Interesting observation: it's OK to cut people off as long as you throw up your hand afterwards...

The Chief of Aketeyensua Village was my patient. 

This little 8 month old girl lost her mother 4 months ago. Now she suffers from pretty severe malnutrition
that was causing her to lose her hair. I carried her around for atleast 20 minutes and wanted nothing more than to bring her home and put clean clothes on her and feed her well.. Hoping and praying that the Aunt will be able to provide formula and high calorie foods to keep her healthy. 

Village folks waiting to be seen 

Emma is my new translator. She is an angel and was amazing! 


Hateka Village was a small village of only about 100 people.
They still  have huts made of grass and mud , the people there were wonderful. 
The kids at Hateka Village loved playing with the parachute


Our gift from the Hateka Village women 

They have some major ant hills in Africa!

We went to a pineapple farm .. who knew pineapples didn't grow on trees? NOT ME

Pineapple 101: The more crowns a pineapple has, the variation of genetics and the sweeter the pineapple will be

The best most fresh pineapple I will ever it! It was delicious!

1 comment:

  1. Lauren, I also learned that pineapples don't grow on trees this past month, haha!!! You are in my thoughts and prayers daily. I know the work can be exhausting and heartbreaking, but God is doing great things through you and Staci! Can't wait to see you when you get back!

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