WorldWide Schools presentation of m service in Senegal. Supports the 3rd goal of the Corps: bring culture back. Presented to schools and community groups.

1. Derek Martin, Senegal RPCV 1995

2. What is the Peace Corps?
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the
Peace Corps to promote world peace and friendship.
Its mission has three simple goals:
1.Helping the people of interested countries in
meeting their need for trained men and
women.
2.Helping promote a better understanding of
Americans on the part of the peoples served.
3.Helping promote a better understanding of
other peoples on the part of Americans.

3. Who and Where?
More than 195,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have
served in139 host countries

4. What do they PC Volunteers Do?
Current Programs
Education
Youth Outreach
Community Development
Business Development
Agriculture and Environment
Health and HIV/AIDS
Information technology

5. Republic of Senegal
• Population: over 11 million, 70 percent live in rural areas
• Democracy with 7 year presidential term
• Religion: 95% Muslim, 4% Catholic, 1% animist

6. Friday Prayer

7. Ethnicity & Language in Senegal
Peul Serer
24% 15%
Lebou
10%
Jola
Wolof 4%
43%
Mandinke
Other 3%
1%

8. First Day….Stage

9. Home Stay: Cisse Family

10. Cheik the Sai Sai

11. My Personal Space

12. A jangi Pulaar

13. Feeling confident before the Village

14. Transport

15. Kalidou & Maimouna Diallo

16. Kids on the well

17. Ousman Balde #1 & #3

18. My Bathroom

19. My Hut

20. Family Compound

21. A Day in the life…Breakfast

22. Greetings….
1.Salaam Aleikum “Aleikum Salaam”
2.On Jarama?
3.Tana Ala?
4.Mbad-Da a Galle?
5.Ana Celli? “Jam Tan”
6.Mbad da Ligge woni?
7.Mbad da Sarre woni

23. Pindy Diallo (the dinner bandit)

24. Dry Season

25. Wet Season

26. Industry: Cattle

27. Milk

28. Rice

29. Peanuts

30. Fish

31. My Partner, YaYa Kande

32. My “Sidekick” Cato

33. Projects
 Unsuccessful projects = Imposed approach without
local ownership
• Cultural festival
• Merchant community Bank
• Batik Brothers
 Successful Project = locally generated, driven, and
sustained
• Banana plantation
• Traditional Wrestling
• Market Garden
• Soap making
• Community lending

34. Wrestling Project

35. Konkoran – spiritual police

37. Village Idiot

38. Basaari Rites of Passage

39. “Le Masque”

40. The Fight

41. Boy becomes a man

42. 28 months later….

43. Giving Back – The impossible equation
Your Involvement
Your
•Experience
•Learning Community
•Maturity
•Confidence
YOU
How can you get involved?

44. Questions?