My hut and family compound.

Most Gambians live in round or square huts built out of mud and concrete bricks. The roof can be either thatch (as mine is) or corragate metal. Due to violent storms during the rainy season, Gambians are constantly making repairs to their homes. There is usually no running water or electricity, but you can see that I have a solar panel and car battery set up in my hut. I fetch drinking water from a pump and keep it in a filter and a large clay jar that I have. I fetch bathing water from an open well near my hut and store it in buckets. It's a simple home, but it's a good home.


Putting more hay on the roof of my hut (preparing for rainy season).

My pit latrine.

My back yard. The bath tub was put there by a previous volunteer. I put up the tire swing and the prayer flags (see "Questions and Answers" if you're curious about the prayer flags).

Inside my hut.

Inside my hut.

Inside my hut.

My host-families water jars.

My hut.

The cooking house and other compound huts.

The donkey pen.

Some animals that I have seen or caught.

A camel spider I caught under my bed.

Lizards in my back yard. The colorful one is the male.

A beautiful kingfisher that I caught in Fatoto.

Some insects I collected.

A weaver I caught at Tendaba Camp.

A chicken near a mortar.

Teachers and students at my school.

Girls during sports day.

Girls during sports day.

Boys during sports day.

Mr. Baldeh.

Teachers in the library.

My make-shift science lab.

Library students showing off paper windmills that they made (very seriously).

Library Clud students.

Rain at school.

FAWEGAM's "Take Our Daughters to Work Day."

Grade 9 class officers.

Grade 9.

My school office.

Yahya Baldeh, grade 8.

Mama, Grade 9

Grade 8 girls.

Mr. Baldeh by the school water pump.

Pateh Jallow, my headmaster, building a fence around a mango sapling.

Ensa "Man" Gibba, my deputy headmaster, building a fence around a mango sapling.

All the Suduwol Basic Cycle School students (and me).

Setting up the school library.

Pictures of my fellow volunteer friends

Kristy working in her garden.

Kristy getting ready to cook pancatoes in the Basse car park.

Josh and Kristy in the Fatoto market.

Josh on the raod to Fatoto.

Zach in a field near Niakoi on North Bank.

Hiking near Tendaba camp.

Josh and Travis team teaching during Model School.

Nathan on the road from Fula Kunda to Serra Samba.

The original Fula-language training group; (left to right) Travis, Taina, Josh, and I.

Josh outside his hut in training village.

Josh outside Fula Kunda our training village.

Pictures of men, women, and children in my village.

The village mosque.

Praying in the fields at the end of Ramadon.