Rainy Season Update 6/13/25

The Rainy Season

June is the rainiest month of the year in Accra. The average for the month

is well over six inches and our friends there are suffering because of it.

When you have a solid house with a good roof and walls and glass windows rain is

not a problem. It can even be pleasant to sit safe, secure, and dry indoors and

watch it raining outside where it can't get at you. But when you have a roof that

lets the water pour through, or when you have no home at all, rain can be

incredibly destructive. Water gets into everything and there is no way to protect

yourself and your belongings. Water destroys food and anything made of paper of any

other perishable material. Clothes become sodden and unwearable. Everything you own

can be destroyed and there is absolutely nothing you can do to protect it.

Those who have never had to go through this kind of experience can find it hard to

understand how devastating it can be. And when it goes on and on for day after day

with no chance to catch your breath and try to dry out your things it can destroy

everything you own.

And of course there is also the health risk to small children, elders, and those in

less than perfect health who get cold and drenched and have no way to dry off or

warm up.

Many of our friends in live on the edges, with barely enough to eat (if even

that) and some of them are homeless with no shelter against the storm. They are

having a very hard time.