Well I got back to Village last week from my little stay-cation in Dakar/Thies, where I was helping out with trainings and getting my mid-service checkup, and boy did they make a lot of progress on the health hut renovation. Here’s the photos; with the new room in the middle, they decided to add on a tiny front closet room and a front porch, we’ll see how that works into my budget…but I still think its great progress so far. They also dug the well deeper so now it has water in it, if the water table drops some more before the rains start, they’ll dig it deeper again to guarantee year-around access to water there.
the front of the health hut (notice the murals from the old health hut on the left)
the back of the health hut, solar panels, and the new metal roof
I had to head back into Kedougou for the weekend to help greet the new group of volunteers who just swore in on Friday. A big welcome to Marielle, LaRocha, Ben, Ian, Patrick, and Martin, they’re the new Health/Environmental Ed stage, which means I’m old now… Then Monday, Meera, Leah and I facilitated a training out in Bandifassi for an upcoming region-wide condom distribution program, this was to start out the 3-month test phase. But since I was at that training I unfortunately missed my workers back in Pelel, who, before the weekend, promised me they were going to finish covering the walls and floors with cement and finish the roof panels on the veranda. So that should have been done yesterday, I’ll get some more photos tomorrow when I get back to site.
and here's a photo of some of the stuff growing in the women's group garden, slow growing I know, the rains will come soon!
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