Pay it forwards...

Lydia's mother is not well. We managed to get her to spend a couple of days at the mini clinic- where Lydia is the primary care giver.

 

Lydia is busy trying to establish any pertinent history related to her current conditions.

 

For the family it is a big thing to allow this lady to come for support in the non-traditional manner.

 

We will need to let her go back on Wednesday for market day, so we are against the clock to try to put her on the right course for recovery.

Time to tidy up...

The girls decided to take other sources of physical education seriously and so they wanted to do some

weeding exercise this morning around the their accommodation surroundings to make the place a lot more appropriate in order to keep snakes and other dangerous creatures away from the area.

Is very good that, the young ladies are taking initiatives in their chosen carrier to enable them become young professionals to help change the perception towards not educating girl children in this culture since girls are not given the same opportunities as boys gets. These ladies are becoming the pioneers of training of young ladies from rural Ghana.

Belly pob progress

The belly pod is coming on, the front aerodynamic shaping is rather becoming a very interesting concept.

Everyone working really hard to get it to the stage where it will be made available to other people who interested in developing one for their use to change lives.

We are currently working out the best way to brace the different parts in order to not compromise airflow over the oil radiator and the drop materials when being. dropped out.

EMT Training

Unexpected occurrences do happen, but how we respond to them when they happen, is the most important thing.

Everyone at the airfield is being trained for EMT(Emergency Medical Technician). This is to enable each individual be able to help render first aid service should the need arise.

Every week always ends with a scenario to keep the team prepared for a real case, meanwhile today's scenario was one that will definitely need revisited.


The ladies were given a situation which goes as follows;
A volunteer gentleman using the chainsaw and mistakenly got his arm cut with the saw and as a result fell straight to the ground helplessly in shock and with a potential head injury.

The ladies approached the scene and the first thing that happened was; everybody stopped and in first aid, thus
1. I am number one.
2. What happened to you?
3. BSI (Body Substance Isolation)
4.Are there any more?
5.Dead or alive?

They then emobilised his head put him in wheel chair and took him to the clinic in order to work on him easier since he has been working in the sun for a long time and perhaps is part of his panic, the clinic will keep him cool.

Direct pressure was applied to the wound to stop the bleeding and to help the blood clot quicker. the wound was then cleaned and covered. To start with, the victim's LoR was zero but by the time they had reassured and dressed his wounds, he was fine with LoR×4 ( meaning that; he knew his name, where he was, what time of day it was and what happened to him).

Vital signs were taken and a soap report prepared for handing over to a responsible physician.

In all the students performed brilliantly.

Maintenance time...

Maintenance is not a strength in this culture, it is not usual to come across machines that have never been maintained throughout their entire life.

Today, as the young ladies were working with our John Deere lawn mower, they noticed the warning for a fifty hour service. They then drove and packed the precious machine in front of the workshop ready for carrying out the service.

The different tools and required materials were nicely laid out for this important work. It was very encouraging to see that, the very first thing was; general cleaning on the machine, draining the old oil, changing the oil filter, removing and cleaning air filter, removing the mower deck, sharpening and re-balancing the blades and general inspection etc.

I watched carefully and worked with the youngsters and saw how passionate they were, about what they doing, the eye for detail and perhaps this is the stepping stone towards changing the mindset about the need for maintenance across our culture.

Pride

Taking pride in what one does is really essential in our part of the world since we are always operating in very hostile terrain, with equipments failing all the time due to the high humidity every day.

I see how hard these ladies work in order to make sure that, the tools are kept clean and in a cool place to improve on their life span.

It's a global initiative...

This year, we receiving many volunteers across the globe. In the past few months, we have had some of the volunteers from US, Germany, Austria, Ireland etc.

This week, our youngsters are benefiting from lot of Mr Onniberg's many experiences in Aviation since he is an instructor for airline pilots. He going through all the CBT DVD with ladies and explaining the very technical words.

Some of the topics includes principles of flight, stall recovering, atmosphere, weather amongst many others. He is also taking the time to prepare some short notes for them to help answer most of their questions that they are yet to ask.