Cape Verde
April 15th, 2005 by Art.“A hard bargain THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: Not so foreign travels”
Archive for Western Africa
Peace Corps volunteer gets an education while working in Mauritania
March 11th, 2005 by Jason Pearce.2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA Since June, Daniel, who is from St. Francisville, has been working in Mauritania, a country in northwest Africa. She is on a two-year assignment teaching a variety of subjects, including computers, and working as a trainer at a women’s sports center. After 10 weeks of training in Kaedi, she lives in Atar, [...]
Peace Corps serves the needy
March 3rd, 2005 by Jason Pearce.Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA Christie Harrington, a 1994 graduate of Marquette Senior High School and current Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa, is helping her village of Tolo to build solar fruit dryers. Harrington is also teaching her citizens to bag the dried fruit for sale at market. …