Teaching/Tutoring

In addition to Jim's work in the Ear, Nose and Throat clinic at the hospital, he has been lecturing two mornings a week at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, one of four medical schools in Ghana. The other three are located in Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast, the school here in Tamale being the only one in the Northern Region. Unfortunately, once students in both the medical and nursing programs graduate, the majority choose to work in the south, leaving this area very much in need of healthcare workers.
As for me, I have enjoyed teaching English to the young French-speaking missionary sisters and as often happens, an instructor can learn just as much from her students - in my case, cultural information about Rwanda and Burkina Faso as well as other African countires in which they have lived and worked. Have also been tutoring the Archbishop Emeritus in computer skills now that he is retired and no longer has a secretary typing letters and sending his correspondence. My own kids would laugh at this saying it must be "the blind leading the blind" but I guess I can at least impart a few of the basics. And so, these morning teaching sessions, along with a little French to English textbook translation have helped to keep me fairly busy.
Tonight, we have a dinner invitation from the Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and tomorrow will be the beginning of my last week in Tamale for a while.