Toilets

Okay, here's the actual link I wanted to post:

http://appropriateprojects.com/node/184

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Byron Yee

Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009

School Toilets!

After a couple months of somewhat complicated grant writing, administrative hoops, and of course the challenge of working in my community, Ecole Karang Soce now has its first official toilets!

Check out this link to see my project as well as the opportunity to donate, if your heart so desires.

Also, a full album of construction and other pictures were just posted on my Piscasa website:

http://picasaweb.google.com/thebyronyee/SchoolToilets#

Thanks to all who donated and are supporting my work here!

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Byron Yee

Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009

My Life as an Agroforestry Volunteer

This month, my site mate Cassie and I spent an intense 2.5 weeks planting trees. Lots and lots of trees.

Collectively, we planted/seeded trees for 4 schools, 2 fields, and a garden for our local hospital. Total tree count: 11,300. More trees to be planted this weekend as well at our friend's site.

Yay trees!!

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Byron Yee

Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009

Ants in My Pants!!

No, its not just a saying, I literally had ants in my pants.

I was working on our community farm and stood in the wrong place for a bit too long. And these ants bite with a stinging passion. And unfortunately, they bit me in my "stinging passion"

Bad news...

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Byron Yee

Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009

Permagarden Training

Today, Cassie and I did an intensive garden training at our local hospital for 20 people, in 2 different languages. Within 6 hours, we trained people new garden digging techniques, seed spacing, tree outplanting, compost, and planting trees for a live fence. We were so surprisingly (and shockingly) efficient and effective with our training, we performed this program more quickly and efficiently than when Peace Corps was training us volunteers…

More importantly, we’ve now enabled all local health facilities to provide vegetables and vitamin rich trees for their communities and well as enabled them to be teachers themselves. Not bad for a day’s work, huh?

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Byron Yee

Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009

Kedougou – The Most Beautiful Place in Senegal

For our 4^th of July celebration, all the PCVs met in Kedougou, the most SE point, yet the most beautiful spot in all of Senegal. I spent a couple days exploring the area and visiting some PCVs before our outrageously American holiday.

To summarize, I…Biked about 100km, climbed 2 mountains, forged 2 rivers with my bike, saw 1 waterfall, ate avocadoes, learned a little Pulaar language, ran 4km, drank an uncountable amount of beer, and ate an uncountable amount pork. All in just a few days.

Overall, the trip was wonderful, intense, exhausting, yet spiritually refreshing and fulfilling. Now I’m back at site, with every single day of this month planned out with lots of work activities.

As always, pics to come soon. Bonne fete de l’Independence des Etats-Unis!

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Byron Yee

Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009