This Senegalese Life

A couple weeks ago I got my hair braided for the first time. After my mom got her hair braided in during her visit Mariama Kesso decided t...

I've posted about cervical cancer and Peace Corps' partnership with PeaceCare, a Chicago-based non-governmental organization, sever...

The January 2013 West Africa Invitational Softball Tournament in Dakar was a great success for the Kédougou team. Not so much for winnin...

So far the month February has been a veritable festival of meetings. Things got started with a Peer Support Network (PSN) workshop preparat...

Ever since I painted a couple map murals at the primary school near my host family's compound the director of the local Cas de Tout-Pe...

It's been a busy few weeks here in Kédougou. We got four new Agriculture PCVs (and they're awesome), it it suddenly freezing cold ...

There was a national campaign to vaccinate vulnerable populations against  meningitis A   this month in Senegal and I was able to go out w...

As evidenced by  This American Life's oft-mentioned "Notes on Camp" episode , for many Americans summer camps are a fun and ...