The teacher in the Yendi Village

Yendi was an amazing trip! Sunday morning the 7th of this month my housemate and I met up with a team that was heading to Yendi to work in the same school as us. They had invited us to ride with them so instead of having to take public transportation for the 15 hour trip we had a private driver which was such a blessing!! We spent the entire week and a half at the school working in the class rooms and unloaded the crates that the team had shipped over, over the last year. It turns out this team was responsible for the starting of the school, they have helped with the funding as well as sending them crates of school supplies to get started. They brought with them new ways of teaching and held workshops with all of the teachers after school each day and trained them with some of the best teaching materials available in America. Since I’m not exactly a teacher I worked in the nursery, a little in the kindergarten class and helped out in the office for the majority of the time when I wasn’t moving boxes of books.


The man that started the school’s name is Musstafa and he is a wonder all on his own. He has started over 200 hundred churches in the Northern region from the East to the West as well as a bunch of schools throughout the villages. We visited two of these schools while I was there. The first one had an amazing story that touched me heart. When we arrived at the school we found the first two classes we visited without teachers? We were all a little put back and thought that maybe the teacher were just slacking off (that is known to happen around here a lot). It didn’t take very long before we found out there was only one teacher for all 5 classes that day. After talking with him a little bit to find out what was going on we also found out that he had moved there from a village far away and was working as a volunteer in the school. Then we found out that the school had promised him all these things but he wasn’t getting any of it. They weren’t giving him food or pay or even a place to have a garden and I am not sure about a place to stay. He had been there 8 months working at the school most of the time by himself or with one maybe two other teachers at the most and all he could say was that he was working for the Lord. I could tell by the look on his face he meant it and I knew that God had been providing all his needs. Before we left God allowed Liz and I to bless him with some cash before heading out… when I handed him the money and tried to speak to him I broke out in tears this man truly showed his love for Gods children and that their education and well being was worth the struggle. Musstafa also talked to the head of the school and he will now be taken better care of praise God!



Yendi itself was an amazing village; it is so beautiful and peaceful. It made me wish that I had gone there sooner to work. It was a wonderful ending to my hard 5 months here. I made it safely back to Accra on Thursday the 18th tired and worn out but feeling accomplished.