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Because of that it should be kind of fun to read.
Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life. Mary Oliver
Bienvenu
Jessica began her Peace Corps experience in January of 2008. She is in the west African country of Niger, which is a pretty isolated part of the world. She has little access to computers, and the mail is slow. I (the MOM) blog her letters and occasional emails, and try to keep my voice out of it.
Current projects
Baby Patrol
Community classroom
Women's grain bank
Environmental ed
Young girl's scholarship program
Fencing for trees and garden
Women's literacy
Men's English class
Communicating
5/11/09 Postage to Niger: .98 for a 1 oz letter (4 pages)
Back home in the USA. No more mail to Jessica in Niger.
Traditional fencing is made of thorny brush that is gathered and piled in a row. It can be effective, but needs a lot of rebuilding.
The fencing that we got from a previous volunteer's village has a new future: instead of going up around our gum arabic plantation, we're going to use it for the school gardens and community tree nursery. I talked about it with the school director and the Tree Guys, as I think of them, and we decided more people would benefit by using the fencing this way. We still haven't put it up, but it'll happen. Probably soon!
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