Saturday, October 17, 2009

Counterpart Workshop

Each Volunteer works with two host country nationals at their specific site:

1. Supervisor: This is a government or adminstrative official each PCV must report to on a regular basis; the boss.

2. Counterpart: This is someone who is highly integrated in the community. They help introduce the PCV to important people/places, and help them find and organize projects.

Over the course of about 3 days, all of our counterparts and supervisors came to visit us for a workshop in Thies. We introduced them to Peace Corps mission and philosophy, and sat down to create an action plan for the first 3 months at site.

Both of my reps are highly intelligent, passionate, energetic, and can both speak at least 4-5 languages. They are both extremely excited to have me start working and living in my site, as am I.

Here's to the future of great working relationships.

--
Byron Yee
Peace Corps Trainee - Senegal, 2009

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