Just on the 2nd of September 2011, I was in my house in Nandom when a gentleman rode in with his motor bike and said there was an 'unusual seen' at the town football park. What was it? He said people had gathered there to witness something they had never seen in the township.
Someone had been riding his motorbike apparently from Hamile, a border town that separates Ghana from Burkina Faso and ten miles away from Nandom to see a customer or a sister when he was forced to stop apparently because he developed a medical problem and needed to be rushed to the hospital, but unfortunately could not get any help at that time and died instantly with fresh blood.
He had apparently told the family that he was rushing down to Nandom to collect his money and to come back soon, but shock and grieve went down the spines of his family members and especially his wife (who is said to be well to do)that he no longer existed. In no time, the issue was reported to the Nandom Police who came in to pick the body to the station and whatever happened thereafter, just a few people knew.
An autopsy was done and cause of death reported on before he was released to the family for them to follow their Islamic funeral rites.
So in life it is essential that we acknowledge our creator for the mercies and love and care we have always enjoyed, since it can happen to anyone at anytime.
Life is just but a stage, where we move on from one level to the other. Acknowledge the grace of God in your life each passing second.
Monday 12 September 2011
Who Am I?
Born to Mr. James Dondome-kpirnuru Beyuo and Mrs. Eva Beyuo (all deceased) I am the last born of thirteen (13) children, eight males and five females.
I attended St. Paul's Primary in Nandom from 1985 to 1991. From 1991 to 1994, I attended the St. Andrew Junior Secondary School for my BECE.
My secondary school education was partly in Cape Coast and finally in Sunyani.
I am currently a student of the Pentecost University College in Accra and a staff of the St. Theresa's Hospital-Nandom in the Upper West Region of Ghana.
I work as a Senior Health Statistics Assistant and is currently studying Business Information Systems and hoping to major in BA Human Resource Management upon obtaining an Advanced Diploma in Business Information Systems.
I have a Diploma in Computer Hardware and Software Engineering from Danicom Systems, Cape Coast and worked extensively in Ghana and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso in 2002.
I have taught computing and have since been teaching and repairing computer hardware and software.
I am NOT an IT guru, but I love to use computers for development and in finding new things that are happening around me.
I am the Secretary of the Goziir-Narnyaa Community.
Secretary - Missionaries of Africa Family (MissAfamily) - Nandom
Secretary- St. Theresa's Hospital Staff Durbar
President- St. Theresa's Minor Basilica's English Choir
Class Secretary - BIS Pentecost University College (PUC)
A Soloist - Love to sing in praise of God in Reggae with my bro. We call ourselves the International Peace Preachers (IPP).
Do you have any new thing to share with me? I will love it.
Thanks.
I attended St. Paul's Primary in Nandom from 1985 to 1991. From 1991 to 1994, I attended the St. Andrew Junior Secondary School for my BECE.
My secondary school education was partly in Cape Coast and finally in Sunyani.
I am currently a student of the Pentecost University College in Accra and a staff of the St. Theresa's Hospital-Nandom in the Upper West Region of Ghana.
I work as a Senior Health Statistics Assistant and is currently studying Business Information Systems and hoping to major in BA Human Resource Management upon obtaining an Advanced Diploma in Business Information Systems.
I have a Diploma in Computer Hardware and Software Engineering from Danicom Systems, Cape Coast and worked extensively in Ghana and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso in 2002.
I have taught computing and have since been teaching and repairing computer hardware and software.
I am NOT an IT guru, but I love to use computers for development and in finding new things that are happening around me.
I am the Secretary of the Goziir-Narnyaa Community.
Secretary - Missionaries of Africa Family (MissAfamily) - Nandom
Secretary- St. Theresa's Hospital Staff Durbar
President- St. Theresa's Minor Basilica's English Choir
Class Secretary - BIS Pentecost University College (PUC)
A Soloist - Love to sing in praise of God in Reggae with my bro. We call ourselves the International Peace Preachers (IPP).
Do you have any new thing to share with me? I will love it.
Thanks.
My People Are Suffering
When I do hear of NGO's and Philanthropic organisations everywhere in Ghana, I have always wished that they could touch down to earth with the realities in Nandom in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region of Ghana. Our women are hardworking and dedicated, but they lack financial assistance to make ends meet.
Women from surrounding villages carry loads of fire wood everyday and walk several miles to the Nandom Township to be sold to 'Pito' brewers (a local beer) enjoyed by the "Dagara Indigenes" who are located in the north-western part of Ghana, in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
The people are involved in peasant farming and the rains are not favourable enough for any serious farming activity. The males are always found drifting to the south in search of greener pastures, but I tell you the semi-literates find themselves in mines in Tarkwa, Prestea, Obuasi and the farming communities in the southern portions of Ghana.
Literally those who have had the opportunity to go to school are always excellent in their various disciplines, thanks to the presence of the early Missionaries who brought about civilisation to the area. Through the Missionaries, the St. Theresa's Minor Basilica (The Largest Cathedral in Ghana and the second largest in West Africa and Africa after the one in La Cote D'Ivoire) and built with "STONES" since 1933, brought about education, health and every other activity that has sustained the people up till now.
The Late Cardinal Peter Porekuu Dery was one of the first to be baptized, and first priest to be ordained. The current Bishops in the three northern regions (who happen to hail from the area) are all products of the Mission Schools in Nandom.
People from far and near have benefited from the schools and we are yet to see the major impacts of government projects. Even though government came into take over the payments of the teachers and workers of the only District Hospital not found in a district capital, the provision of electricity supply in 1997, and potable water supply, Nandom has been what it is through the people themselves.
I therefore want to believe that if the suffering women who are forced to carry fire wood on their heads are adequately resourced, they can vigorously support their families and see to the education of their children through to the highest level.
There are several economic activities apart from pito brewing, carting of firewood, preparation of cakes - using beans to shea butter extraction, buying and selling of farm produce, weaving of local clothes, sewing and several other economic ventures which I believe NGO's can help resource them to effectively and efficiently work to be self empowered and prosperous.
I have always wished that I could have this opportunity to highlight the good, the bad and the ugly in that part of the country to my country men and women, and the world at large. This is an opportune time for me to share with you genuinely, what I come across everyday as I encounter my people and the pain and agony I go through seeing them in such a situation.
I happened to raise an amount of two thousand Ghana cedis just in support of some women groups in April this year and the kind of rush they came in their numbers was surprising. I have always had that idea at the back of my mind that they need support, but unfortunately, the said amount wasn't mine and had to be given back to the fellow who gave it to me. Now they are pestering me here and there to re-disburse the money to them. That is what they need, I got to realise, with the number of calls I received. Is someone listening? Please send this link to an institution that is capable of helping my women in Nandom.
Women from surrounding villages carry loads of fire wood everyday and walk several miles to the Nandom Township to be sold to 'Pito' brewers (a local beer) enjoyed by the "Dagara Indigenes" who are located in the north-western part of Ghana, in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
The people are involved in peasant farming and the rains are not favourable enough for any serious farming activity. The males are always found drifting to the south in search of greener pastures, but I tell you the semi-literates find themselves in mines in Tarkwa, Prestea, Obuasi and the farming communities in the southern portions of Ghana.
Literally those who have had the opportunity to go to school are always excellent in their various disciplines, thanks to the presence of the early Missionaries who brought about civilisation to the area. Through the Missionaries, the St. Theresa's Minor Basilica (The Largest Cathedral in Ghana and the second largest in West Africa and Africa after the one in La Cote D'Ivoire) and built with "STONES" since 1933, brought about education, health and every other activity that has sustained the people up till now.
The Late Cardinal Peter Porekuu Dery was one of the first to be baptized, and first priest to be ordained. The current Bishops in the three northern regions (who happen to hail from the area) are all products of the Mission Schools in Nandom.
People from far and near have benefited from the schools and we are yet to see the major impacts of government projects. Even though government came into take over the payments of the teachers and workers of the only District Hospital not found in a district capital, the provision of electricity supply in 1997, and potable water supply, Nandom has been what it is through the people themselves.
I therefore want to believe that if the suffering women who are forced to carry fire wood on their heads are adequately resourced, they can vigorously support their families and see to the education of their children through to the highest level.
There are several economic activities apart from pito brewing, carting of firewood, preparation of cakes - using beans to shea butter extraction, buying and selling of farm produce, weaving of local clothes, sewing and several other economic ventures which I believe NGO's can help resource them to effectively and efficiently work to be self empowered and prosperous.
I have always wished that I could have this opportunity to highlight the good, the bad and the ugly in that part of the country to my country men and women, and the world at large. This is an opportune time for me to share with you genuinely, what I come across everyday as I encounter my people and the pain and agony I go through seeing them in such a situation.
I happened to raise an amount of two thousand Ghana cedis just in support of some women groups in April this year and the kind of rush they came in their numbers was surprising. I have always had that idea at the back of my mind that they need support, but unfortunately, the said amount wasn't mine and had to be given back to the fellow who gave it to me. Now they are pestering me here and there to re-disburse the money to them. That is what they need, I got to realise, with the number of calls I received. Is someone listening? Please send this link to an institution that is capable of helping my women in Nandom.
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