I wished I would have written sooner, but I’ve been busy in good ways and this has given me time to collect my thoughts about this place, people, idea, job and how to talk about being here. Sugar cane fields in the north west of the island First of all, it’s beautiful, people are awesome, […]
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Bees wax and Honey Product Tourney in Kolda
This happened back in June of 2014. After traveling to Gambia for bee training, Jessica, an Agro-forestry volunteer who is from the southern region of Kolda decided to organize a tourney training. Which is a series of trainings, usually the exact training repeated, to various villages; usually villages that also have a volunteer to help […]
West African Trainers of Trainers Conference in Banjul, Gambia
This happened back in February 3-8 2014 and I wrote about it on Facebook, but now once getting home, being able to relax and go through some of the notes I took from this and other events that happened in the last year. I killed not one but TWO laptops so my writing sadly lessened […]
Q & A’s
So as I finish my 3 last weeks in Senegal me and my fellow stage mates are writing final reports, cleaning and purging our belongings, planning for next steps and handing off keys to our huts to replacements if we have them for our villages. Below are some questions I’m sure people wonder about or […]