Community Gardens

This past weekend marked my largest project and training session of my service. For 3 days, 4 PCVs, one PC Supervisor, and another NGO representative worked in town to train 58 new and exciting garden and farming techniques. The work was exhausting and stressful, but the goal is to provide people with new techniques that can exponentially increase their garden and farm harvests, thereby increasing their income and standard of living.

This is a newly formed group of community members wishing to utilize the strength in numbers philosophy and work together to produce larger output than individual farmers can. This is the ideal group for PCVs work with. Also, this is an ideal project for Peace Corps as it involves the expertise and participation of all volunteers: Business, Agroforestry, sustainable agriculture, and much more.

Best of luck and thanks to everyone for your help! And once all 4 PCVs get to a central computer, we will have pictures eventually…

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Byron Yee

Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009