Last Days in Senegal

It's a little belated, but here is my last blogpost about my Peace Corps service in Senegal.

A. mellifera live fence nursery
at Toumani's demo site

Toumani and some moringa trees to be outplanted at the demo site

Crazy dancing at my neighbor's wedding

This is what the whole valley used to look like, with the native
species of oil palm. Now much of it is deforested, and the villages
asked to reforest with a shorter, higher producing hybrid.

The villagers were required to provide fencing
and outplanting labor in return for a number of
oil palm starts based on their household size.

Ally and Sam and four other volunteers
came to help with the project

Outplanting demonstration

Unloading the starts when they arrived
from the nursery in Zinuinchor

My backyard nursery - mangoes, citrus, and papayas

Sara Diamanka with his grandkids -
this is probably going to be the counterpart
of the volunteer coming to the site I set up in
Sare Samba

My last photo with my host family - Wopa and her mother and
my little namesake, Diatou, and Nene.

At N'ice Cream in Dakar, saying goodbye to Peace Corps friends