where is it made

Coca cola canned in South Africa
Heinz Catsup bottled in Egypt
Heinz Salad Cream (quite like Miracle Whip) from the Netherlands
all found their way to my fridge ...lucky me!!!!!

Yesterday's visit continued

Mary organized a meeting with the administrator of the Men's Prison for yesterday and we started a discussion as .. what would be helpful for them to have? The suggestion last spring when I asked this question was the same...Barbering Equipment. In the best of all worlds it would comprise a structure like the Beauty Salon plus the required equipment. At this point I do not have resources for the structure but will try to  get enough equipment for them to start and gradually gather funds for the building. They seemed quite pleased with that and are putting together a list with costs for me to see.

Administrator

I was given a tour of the whole place. They housed yesterday 923 inmates, for some they sleep on a mattress on the floor with blankets and pillow as there are not enough beds for all. The administration has set up a number of skill building opportunities: carpentry workshop, several sewing machines and they make all the uniforms for the guards, a shoe making operation,  a classroom where they can work on school subjects, even get ready to go to college, and a bank of computers where I saw several working on Mavis (a learn to type program that we used at Flemingdon Park) and a small table with mirror where barbering is now done

  I was very impressed with how much was done when there are actual funds in the budget for skill training. When asked; about 75% of the inmates never been to school. There are about 300 staff to maintain coverage for this operation. This is a beginning no matter how small it turns out to be.

beauty salon to say hello

Went to visit the shoppe, business is alive and well, They have planted flowers and bushes around the structure, looks very nice
It now has a name 

CANADIAN HAIR DRESSING SALON

I gave a small Canadian flag to Mary to hang in the shoppe

The director on my right and staff on the left.

two assistant directors, Mary on on the right

This client has gel in her hair, a net over the head as a guide and a small tress of hair is pulled out in each net opening, the process takes about 30 minutes, she wraps her head to sleep and it last a couple of weeks, the result is hard to touch.

CHOCOLATE ...MMMMMMM

by the spoon, better that ???   mmmmmmmmmmm    with Ghana cocoa

AND I was told today we have a new generator for the cathedral and the houses on the cathedral grounds, like I am going to miss the power outages  NO

no bites

I find it interesting that only one person who emailed me tried to guess what the garden egg was hmmm   anyone out there??????

back to square one

can't get another format that I like any better so went back.
-visited the Skill Centre of the Holy Paraclette today, they are working hard at learning what they can about sewing etc.We did a short bible study on the 10 lepers, off the cuff mind you, and discussed embroidery and looked at embroidery hoops, so that is another skill they are going to be taught when we can scare up some embroidery floss, does not exist in Sunyani so I am told, will look further then,

ONLY 60 DAYS

YOU FIGURE IT OUT

We had a Harvest(fund raiser) for the Women's Groups today, The executive (I think) were brought up to sit behind a table, then a former warden encourages donations on the spot by shouting out amounts; 10cd, 20 cd, 50, 100, 200 etc and folks respond as the spirit and I am sure their pocket book tells them, It lasted about 40 minutes and then there was the regular offertory. Interesting.
During the times when my mind wandered(yes it does sometimes in church, especially if the sermon is in Twi) I was looking outside at how green everything is so I took some pics to share.

                          

after church chatting at the front door

hanging around waiting to go home