A Peace Corps Experience

I attended a workshop with my counterpart, Jatta, and fourteen other PCVs and counterparts at Massembeh to learn about the orange flesh sweetpotato (OFSP). The white sweetpotato is a common food throughout The  Gambia, but doesn’t have as high a nutritional value of the OFSP, so PC has been encouraging the consumption of OFSP for better health. This two day event was a cross-sectorial workshop with PCVs from… ....READ MORE | 2 Comments

I had an incredible time visiting the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project (CRP) in the River Gambia National Park (RGNP) with Polly, her Gambian host brother Alieu, and Kevin who was visiting from Germany. Kevin lived with Polly’s family as a high school exchange student, and Polly’s two sons were able to be high school exchange students with Kevin’s family in Germany, and the… ....READ MORE | 7 Comments