CAMP UNITE 2007

CAMP UNITE
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The highlight of a recent string of what feels like productive work was being a counselor at CAMP UNITE. CAMP UNITE brings male and female students and apprentices together at 4 separate camps in order for them to discuss and learn about certain life skills and practices such as self-confidence, planning of the future, STD and HIV/ AIDS prevention and treatment, and gender equity that are judged necessary for a healthy, happy, and successful life. The camp's target group is female youth, but the female youths have pointed out that their male boy friends and colleagues are key to their success, and so the latter have been invited aswell.

The other activities that have made time here feel quite productive of late include a weekly village exhibition of homegrown/ local innovative ideas, village youth teaching about the Moringa tree while selling seedlings, seeds, and supporting documents at the local market, supporting local community health agents in their quest to plant Moringa throughout the county, planning of a field trip to the Université de Kara with local middle schoolers and preparing for another camp in July.

It is said that the pace of Peace Corps work picks up at the 1 year mark, and it has...dieu merci.