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After breakfast this morning students — grouped more-or-less by their host neighborhoods — got into taxies to head to the center of Thiès to do some exploring. They were dropped off at different places and and were given some tasks along the way to help them explore and try out…
Students woke this morning to the call to prayer from the mosque near the guesthouse and, before too long, lots of excited voices from school children arriving at the John Huffmann school that is attached to their guesthouse. Folks there had breakfast ready for them at 8:30 and by…
Just a quick note tonight to say that we are all back in Thies and everyone is accounted for. Students are at the guesthouse in town where they will be sleeping and we will be meeting over the next couple of days. They are all in good form if a…
All is ready for the arrival of our students tomorrow night. Folks at the guest house (“C.A.F.E.”) in Thies (where they will “land” after their bus-ride from Dakar airport) were making up their rooms this morning. Host families are eager to meet them. Adama (our coordinator) and Jan and I…
On Thursday SSTers returned to Thies. They visited with Study Term host families and spent the night in the C.A.F.E. where they took classes. On Friday morning we traveled to Saly where we are staying in Les Flamboyant Hotel. We are presenting our projects, reconnecting and preparing to return home…
Grace, Justine, and Naomi have been spending their service in Pire Goureye, one of the new GC service sites this year. Pire Goureye is a village located approximately 40 kilometers north of Thiès, just outside the town of Tivaoune. Grace and Naomi are living with host families from the…
Micah is our lone representative in the capital city, Dakar. Dakar is a busy metropolis with over one million inhabitants and Micah has had to learn to navigate bus routes and busy streets to make it to his morning service location at the Pouponniere Des Soeurs Franciscaines Missionaires…
We spent a week visiting students in the south central peanut basin, a hot, sandy region that has felt the powerful strains of intensive peanut production for export since the time of colonialism. This is a rural area and with the coming of the first few rains the countryside…
During Study we spent several weeks exploring development and social change. As part of this focus we visited two social change projects, the Beer-Sheba Project and the ONG des Villageois de Ndem. The Beer-Sheba Project is a Christian based initiative that combines a sustainable agro-forestry program together with…
Micah is our lone representative in the capital city, Dakar. Dakar is a busy metropolis with over one million inhabitants and Micah has had to learn to navigate bus routes and busy streets to make it to his morning service location at the Pouponniere Des Soeurs Franciscaines Missionaires De…