This Senegalese Life

In just five days I’ll be leaving West Africa, but I won’t be gone for long. I've been offered and accepted a  Peace Corps Response  ...

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...

In March the maternal and child health training for "Neighborhood Aunts"that we've been trying to get off the ground for mont...

During my baseline survey, many of the 62 family compounds I interviewed talked about wanting a latrine. There were some pre-existing latri...

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

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

My training group and I had our Close-of-Service (COS) conference last week and I now I have an official COS date (May 1st, 2013!)  and a l...

Just after Christmas my mom and brother arrived from California. After they landed in Dakar they got to sleep for a few hours before piling...