Ghana claims that there have been no new cases of polio for several years. They want to keep it that way. This was phase II of the polio campaign, where the children received their second dose of the drops. Wonder and Dorcas did not write down names, but they kept a count and marked each house and school with a chalk symbol to show that the child/children had received their vaccines. After the drops were administered, the child's pinky fingernail was marked with a permanant marker.
Not a single parent turned down the opportunity for their children to receive the polio vaccine. We were touched by the sweetness of the people and the tenderness with which the two young volunteers treated each child.
These pictures are an example of what happened that weekend all over the country of Ghana as thousands of volunteers made this polio campaign a great success.
