We have been quiet on the blog for a little while but we have made a lot of progress in the mean time! After several trips to the bank we finally created an account specifically for our Ghana fundraising and were able to set up a way to take online donations on our fundraising page....something which has been really exciting!!!! To be able to do this we had to actually create a 'business' so The Adventures of Lindsay and Kiri is pretty legit now!!! Last week we were also interviewed by the St. Albert Gazette and we have started to reach out to other newspapers and companies for fundraising which has started to really get the ball rolling!
When we were reading about the hospital in Takoradi we discovered that they are so short on supplies that they end up using broken needles to start IV's on newborns, something which is drastically different from our medical culture here. It really motivated us to gather relief supplies to take with us on our trip. Through connections my dad had we were offered a very large amount of medical supplies to take- our main problem at this point is now how we are supposed to transport this much cargo all the way across the world! Our goal is to take as many basic medical supplies as we possibly can with us, we haven't decided if we will carry 6 checked bags along with us or try to arrange for a pallet to be transported separately. Either way its a extremely exciting for us and we are so glad we are going to be able to help out the community we are travelling to, even if its only a fraction of what they need!!
Stay tuned for updates as this dynamic duo braves the travel clinic tomorrow for our immunizations that we will be needed for the trip!
-K
When we were reading about the hospital in Takoradi we discovered that they are so short on supplies that they end up using broken needles to start IV's on newborns, something which is drastically different from our medical culture here. It really motivated us to gather relief supplies to take with us on our trip. Through connections my dad had we were offered a very large amount of medical supplies to take- our main problem at this point is now how we are supposed to transport this much cargo all the way across the world! Our goal is to take as many basic medical supplies as we possibly can with us, we haven't decided if we will carry 6 checked bags along with us or try to arrange for a pallet to be transported separately. Either way its a extremely exciting for us and we are so glad we are going to be able to help out the community we are travelling to, even if its only a fraction of what they need!!
Stay tuned for updates as this dynamic duo braves the travel clinic tomorrow for our immunizations that we will be needed for the trip!
-K