Happy International Education Week!

When Habbie first got her period, she was clueless about what was happening to her body.

Handwriting

On the side of a dusty Gambian road, Peace Corps Volunteer Tre’ Giles sits outside of a bitik on a hand-carved wooden stool. 

Hawa opens her mouth wide and laughs in that way of hers that is so infectious I can’t help but laugh as well. 

“Thank you so much for coming to our class.  I want to keep doing this so I can help people in poor countries.”

Families in The Gambia, like so many across the rest of Africa, struggle with maintaining stable access to nutritious food. 

“It is so difficult to provide for the family needs,” says Kaddy Jammeh, one of the Gambian girls who attended Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) this year in The Gambia. 

When I started a pen pals project between my elementary school in The Gambia and various classes in the States, I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into. I thought a letter exchange could be a simple first project for me to start. What I forgot, however, is that nothing is simple in West Africa.