GHANA - DAY 25

Third shift at the Princess Town Health Centre. Pushing a trike, vaccinations, canoe ride and a bonfire on the beach!

We were assigned to go to some of the other villages today to do child health and vaccinations with one of the other clinics. Our clinic has a trike that they use to get around. After the doctors rounds we were waiting to go, after a while

I went out to find the doctor and the nurse taking us trying (without success) to start it 🤣 I suggested we bump start it and so the 3 of us spent the next 15 minutes pushing it up and down the hill... Eventually it started in time for Liv and Scarlett to come out wondering where I'd got to 😊

We set off, and at the first village the nurse needed to take some fuel to someone and accidentally stopped the trike. Again it refused to start and we (and some helpful passers-by) pushed it and got it started again. He stopped at the following village, then realised we were in the wrong place... And of course, the trike wouldn't start... We did a lot of pushing, and some helpers even popped the bonnet and looked at the battery and engine 🤣🤣🤣

Eventually the nurse flagged down a lad on a motorbike and that was how we got to the correct village - 3-up!!!! It was the best thing EVER!! it PROPERLY cheered me up (even when they refused to let me ride it). So with a massive smile I arrived late for duty in the child health clinic. They were almost finished at this village and so we soon moved to the next one along (on the bikes, 3-up again 😁) and got on with some real work. We were shown the ropes and we're soon weighing babies and learning about the vaccines. The final village was much more busy and we really warned our keep!! I lost count of how many vaccines I did and how many babies were weighed, but it was awesome and the 3 of us oborɔnyi (Fante for 'white person') did really good, we had a real system between the 3 of us in the end and we smashed it.

So we totally deserved to head back in the newly fixed trike... And break down a further 4 times before arriving at the Princess Clinic 🤣

Lunch was followed by a canoe ride on the river and then we had a swim. We walked back to the house (only getting a little lost) and had tea before heading back to the beach for the bonfire!

All in all a good penultimate day in Princess Town 😊Les mer