DR GRACE

This is Doctor Grace giving Noeline a list of requirements e.g. blood pressure cuffs, a stethoscope, clean needles etc. The clinic desperately needed rubber gloves as they are working with conditions such as leprosy, aids and hepatitis with their bare hands.

Noeline Haylett

WATER TANKS

These are the water tanks Noeline sends over to the various schools. Noeline explains "We can't dig bore holes for every-one, so I give them these tanks and show them how to attach them to the gutters. Now they don't have gutters the way we do, so I show them how to make gutters and the water runs down into the tank and it seals so the guinea worm can't get in. I am trying to send out a tank each school."


Noeline Haylett

AMBULANCE

This is the second ambulance Noeline sent out. It went to the leper hospital as they didn't have one. Twice a week they use it to go out to remote areas to do child clinics for mothers and babies etc. In Ghana when you are happy or celebrating you wave a white hanky, so they are waving their hankies as they are receiving the ambulance and their crutches and walking aids, their wheelchairs and beds and all sorts of things. In the background you can see the first ambulance that Noeline sent out to the mission. The mission hired a low bed truck to bring all this equipment to the hospital, including rubber gloves and disinfectant and all kinds of wonderful things.

Noeline Haylett

QUAD BIKE

This is a picture of Sylvanus giving the quad to David. The Rev Sylvanus Botsyoe started the EC Mission in Ho, Ghana and Noeline has been working with him since 1996. David uses the quad to go into outlying areas and seeing what help is needed and delivering medicine. He can then report back to Sylvanus about infrastructure, eg if there is a road there, if the ambulance could pass. It is very useful as quads can go into the most remote places where other vehicles can't pass. There are only two quads in the whole of Ghana. Noeline got this quad from the priest that runs the boy school at Tuam.

Noeline Haylett

TRICYCLE

This is a crippled gentleman Noeline met, who works at the leper clinic as an accountant or book-keeper. He has polio and he walks on two crutches which we had supplied earlier, but it’s a long way to go. Noeline managed to get him this wheelchair. It is like a tricycle as well and he can pedal it with his hands. These are quite rare out in Ghana –you see them a lot in India. Noeline paid 300 euro to get a second-hand one. It belonged to some-one who died. Noeline bought it and got it restored for this man.

Noeline Haylett

STAR SCHOOL GHANA

Books arriving to the Star secondary school form County Mayo.

Pupils at the Star secondary school

This is Star School in Ghana. There is a lottery system where children get awarded a place at secondary school. These children’s names would not have come through the lottery system, so when they did their Junior Cert, their names didn’t come up to go to leaving. So this man started a school in a shed, as you can see and they are going to do all their subjects for leaving cert. 65% of the books they us come from County Mayo.





Noeline Haylett