March 8 was International Women's Day. In order to celebrate, with a neighbor, Ibrahima, I walked around my village to each of the forty compounds in order to distribute moringa seeds to all the women. My reasoning behind this was as follows: to acknowledge the women and the hard work they do every day, give them something that they can plant and take care of that is extremely beneficial (as a live fence post in their bathrooms, and extremely nutritional leaves they like to add to food), and as an excuse to walk around my village. It was great having someone to walk around with because of the layout of my village it is easy to get confused and potentially miss or double up on a compound. I was able to go to all the compounds in two "neighborhoods" of my village, and in the evening once it cooled down a bit, I went to the other "neighborhood." The picture below is with some women in their garden in this third neighborhood.
During this time as well, I had a couchsurfer from Canada come visit. He was biking around the country before a conference in Dakar and stayed in Diara Pont for two days. It was really great having someone come visit!
Couchsurfer, Scott, all geared up and ready to go
Family photo and then some thanks to Scott!
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