I attended a very informative permagarden workshop at the Jenoi Farmer Training Center, which is just across the river from where I live in Farafenni. This workshop was presented by Peter Jensen, who was sponsored by Water Charity and hosted by Gambia Rising and Peace Corps The Gambia. Peter is an Agroecology and Permagarden Training Specialist, and has spent the last two decades developing the… ....READ MORE | 1 Comment
This post will describe what my life is like when I’m home in Farafenni. I’ve been gone a lot recently, and travel again next week for a permagarden workshop, and I want to share my day to day routines at site. I am fortunate to have a comfortable living situation, a loving compound family, a good work assignment, and interesting people to relate to as I go about… ....READ MORE | 5 Comments
Once a year all the volunteers in The Gambia get together for an All Volunteer Conference (All-Vol). There were 100+ in attendance at Massembeh, including our program managers, the medical staff, the directors of finance, training, security and our new Country Directer – Megan Wilson. It was great to have everyone together and I met several PCVs that I hadn’t crossed paths with before. There is a lot… ....READ MORE | 5 Comments
I joined the new Media Team to help address the third Peace Corps goal: To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. There are nine team members from all five regions of the country, and our function will be to support other PCVs with photography, video clips, audio recordings and news releases when creating content for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other venues. I… ....READ MORE | 2 Comments