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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: GLADI SL: Part 1
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GLADI SL: Part 1. What women have came before them to say that it’s ok for a girl to lead the boys, or to say no to sex or to work for the betterment of the female situation in Salone…well the question is many. My principal, Mrs. Shereef leads. The first annual “Girls Leading and Developing Sierra Leone” (GLADI SL) Girls Conference officially opened in a music filled hall of the girl-centered. February 25, 2012 at 3:18 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). As I embark on my 27 month of Peace Corps Serv...
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: March 2011
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I thought it was imperative we have a birthday cake. Thankfully, Mom Sinning was thinking the same thing and knows I lack significant culinary talents. Mom had sent me some freeze dried camping food. One was a package of blueberry cheesecake. Since, I have yet to figure out how to bake with my charcoal stove, I was ecstatic that bday cake was only a little hot water and ten minutes away. It’s pumoi magic” Never knew I could be a magician by adding hot water to a plastic bag. It’s somewhat cliché to...
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: February 2012
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GLADI SL: Part 1. What women have came before them to say that it’s ok for a girl to lead the boys, or to say no to sex or to work for the betterment of the female situation in Salone…well the question is many. My principal, Mrs. Shereef leads. The first annual “Girls Leading and Developing Sierra Leone” (GLADI SL) Girls Conference officially opened in a music filled hall of the girl-centered. Group work discussing Gender Equality. Learning how to properly use condoms. GLADI SL: Part 2. Those were just s...
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: July 2012
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My Girls: SSSII Arts and. 8221; he continually says. But I believe him to be a strong partner in development of the area. You traditionally greet a Chief with a hand shake and placing your free hand to support the shaking hands elbow, but I greet PC Gulama with a hug. Julius Jongopie “JP”. Who calls me “Alli”. Mrs LM. Shereef. As a powerful Sierra Leonean woman, she is not only a mother to all Harford girls but a role model empowering them to study and work hard at achieving their goals. This “...Teenage...
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: October 2011
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8220;The foolish one are those who cannot live life the way it is lived by all around them. Those who stand by the flowing river and disapprove of the current. There is no other way and the refusal to take the leap will help absolutely no one at any time.”. 8211;Ayi Kwei Armah The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born. 8220;To become healthy women should always have a noble character and always be a unique role model,” said Sister Agness. She went on to discuss what complete health is, how poverty affects wome...
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: June 2011
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This is a rough video of SL Kids.It's short and a bit shaky but makes me smile! Mangoes. Payayas. Bananas. Oranges. Coconuts. Pineapples. Star Fruits. Weird plum like fruits. Fruits I don’t know the name of. Everywhere. On the street corner, in my class room, on a random market boy’s head standing on my veranda summoning me. Everywhere, so many I can’t eat them fast enough. That’s all I am going to say. SL Fruit rocks. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Freetown, Sierra Leone. The cont...
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone
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Neighbors on my veranda: Mujei, Jabu, Mianee, Satte and Me. Isatu Peacock, Principal Mrs. Shereef and Vice Principal Mrs. Daramy. Greet them for us! July 12, 2012 at 8:23 PM. So great to see and read about all of them! Love love love :). July 13, 2012 at 8:10 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Transmissions from a Peace Corps Volunteer navigating her way through life in Sierra Leone…. View my complete profile. Freetown, Sierra Leone. The things you are afraid of are usually the most worthwhile.
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: January 2011
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From the barbecue, I headed out to meet some other friends at, of course, the Christmas album launch of the next Moyamba hip-hop upstart. Every Christmas needs hip hop show, its a tradition most likely worth bringing back to the states ;-) It was another spectacularly surprising day in West Africa. Finally.sending many Merry Christmas greetings from me to you all around the world! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Transmissions from a Peace Corps Volunteer navigating her way through life in Sierra Leone….
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{dispatch} Sierra Leone: July 2010
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After summer school this week, we all filed into a building with an enormous map of Sierra Leone drawn on the concrete with colored chalk. This was the moment I had waited form all of PST. Our site announcements! One by one we were called to the map to stand in the location of our village. I am heading to MOYAMBA! Become one with spiders as big as my hand…check. Bathe naked under a mango tree near the swamp…check. Hiked African jungle…check. Almost get arrested for not cleaning…check. Having evey mole, f...
