This Senegalese Life

Nisha finished Peace Corps in Costa Rica and then came to visit her sister/my friend Emily in Dakar for a few weeks. While she was in coun...

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

The wall of the Kedougou Regional House's kitchen hut features a large calendar, painted with blackboard paint and outlined in white ho...

Diabou is now the second-youngest kid on my compound. She’s taciturn, obstinate, and small for her age. She doesn't like new people and...

No matter where they come from, pretty much all kids like to draw and color, and while coloring they like to say “Look! Hey! Hey, look! Hey...

With PCVs from my training group already heading back to America, the good-bye phase of my service in Senegal has started. I feel like it ...

While I was away in Thiès and Saraya last month, my youngest host mom, Kade, had her third baby. I knew she was pregnant but hadn't rea...