This Senegalese Life

As many people know, Peace Corps Volunteers love to describe in unsolicited detail all the positively revolting things that have gone into...

After our  World Map Mural went so well the director of the Primary School asked me to do another mural, an outdoor one, to beautify the s...

My neighbors in Salémata and I have been working on painting World Map Murals in each of our villages and last month it was Salémata's ...

My American name is LaRocha ("la-rock-a"), but my Senegalese name is Adama. I have a number of tokorabe  (people with my same na...

At the end of every month there is a Growth Monitoring (AKA Baby-Weighing) and Vaccination Day at the Salémata Health Center, and it is pre...

Last weekend I (along with half my village, a dozen other PCVs, a few European tourists, a handful of Canadians) went to the Bassari villa...

When it comes to living in Senegal there are hard parts (e.g. the heat, the awful transport cars, the skinny skinny babies, the pockets of ...

Over the last few months there have been some cases of  yellow fever  around the region of Kédougou, so the Ministry of Health got a v...