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Mangrove Replanting - With help from PC Washington!
PCVs came from around the region to help with a Mangrove Replanting Day in Sokone, Senegal on August 18th, 2009. We were fortunate to have the Acting Director of Congressional Relations from Peace Corps Washington, Suzie Carroll, join us! Pictured: young Senegalese boy, PCV Rithvik Balakrishnan, and Suzie Carrol
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Teaching they community
PCV Abigail Fay teaching the women in her village to make a nutrient and protein-rich porriage to feed their under-weight children and babies.
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Carrying water
As Volunteers, we learn to live like our community members, including carrying water from the well on our heads! Pictured: Jen Newton and Laurel Gladish, both Senegal '07-'09
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Constant company
With over 45% of the Senegalese population under the age of 18, there are always children to play with or babies to hold. They love the attention. In this photo I'm playing with a little Senegalese girl in the village of a fellow PCV on the morning of a religious pilgrimage that I had come down to see.
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All-Dressed up... for a wrestling tournament!
The Wrestling Tournaments in Senegal are the highlight of the year for many Senegalese villages. Three of us had come down to visit our fellow PCV Laurel Gladish's village, Dassalam-e-Sereer for her villages tournament. Picture: L-R: Laurel Gladish, Sara Hollerich, Jen Newton, Jessica Flaten, all Senegal 07-09
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Sharing Thanksgiving
Five PCVs, one visiting cousin and two Norweigan students cooked our Thanksgiving Meal 2008 at a small hotel on the Langue de Barbarie in Senegal. One of the Volunteers, Sara Hollerich, bought the turkey and kept it in outhouse. Her host-father killed it for her, then she and another PCV prepared it... We also baked pumpkin pies, made stuffing and mashed potatos in the little outdoor kitchen with a sand floor of the hotel. This photo was taken in the bar of the hotel.
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The Flat Tire
On a trip down to the islands in the Mangroves of Senegal's Sine-Saloum Delta, our car got a flat tire... the converted station wagon veared off the road when it blew, making us shriek. Thankfully we all got to our destination safely! There were 7 PCVs on the trip.
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1st Eco-Tourism Expo
With my fellow PCV, Laurel Gladish at the Eco-Tourism Expo that the PCVs working with Eco-Tourism put on to help promote the communities they were working with to tour agencies. The event took place at Club Atlantique in Dakar, Senegal. There were approximately 13 PCVs and their community counterparts that participated in the event
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Graduation Day
These three young Liberians are dressed up for thier preschool graduation...
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Young Hope/ Old Glory
Taken in a small village north of Monrovia, Liberia during a PCRV orientation in 2010...
Third Goal
ThirdGoal.org is an opportunity for the 200,000 Peace Corps Volunteers who have served since 1961 to collectively celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps in 2011. Learn more about our bold plans here...
Countdown to Weekly Contest Deadline!
“Sunset at the Railroad” by PCV Nicholas Baylor Hall. Namibia, 2011.
