by Janine | Jan 15, 2014 |
We began our final day at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. As we walked inside, we were greeted by children and adults of all ages who had come to see the talented Kumasi Cleft Palate Team for pre- and post-surgical consultation. The faces of tiny babies...
by Janine | Jan 14, 2014 |
Today we spent the morning at Effiduase School, a unit school in which Belinda works. TC has been working with Belinda, a teacher of students with disabilities, for the past 7 years. Her class was comprised of 45 students ranging from age 3 to 22, all with a range of...
by Janine | Jan 12, 2014 |
We awoke bright and early this morning to our beautiful new digs in Kumasi. After breakfast, we boarded the bus to start our day at Komfo Anoyke hospital. It was a busy morning of introductions, and more assessments similar to those at Korle Bu. We saw kids with...
by Janine | Jan 12, 2014 |
Today we went back to Larabanga to see Faruk and his family. We were excited to tell them that we had raised enough money to finance Cynthia’s schooling for the next year so she could go back to her old school in Damango. This school is much better than the one...
by Janine | Jan 11, 2014 |
We all expected a simple happy story when we arrived in Larabanga to meet Faruk and his family. However, we witnessed the social and financial impact that cleft lip and palate has on families in developing nations all over the world. Faruk’s father rejected him...
by Janine | Jan 11, 2014 |
Today we drove from Tamale to Mole on the bus while enjoying an “African massage” from the unpaved, bumpy roads. Along the way we stopped to see a traditional village. The village consisted of several families living in mud huts. Unlike cities such as...
by Janine | Jan 10, 2014 |
Our day started dark and early at around 4am. We headed to the airport at Accra to catch our flight to Tamale. When we arrived we were all pleasantly surprised that we had escaped the humidity that we had been growing accustomed to in Accra. Unlike other regions we...
by Janine | Jan 9, 2014 |
Today was our final day at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. We spent the morning providing outpatient speech and language therapy to patients who ranged in age and diagnosis, from adult stroke patients to young children with hearing loss, and everything in between! We are...
by Janine | Jan 7, 2014 |
Oh hello there! Today was another busy, but amazing, day filled with many, many, exciting patient assessment and treatment sessions. We continued our therapeutic strategies with patients who had returned from yesterday and developed new strategies and assessment tools...
