What's Going On- In Pictures

Vaccination/ Baby Weighing days are still the CSCOM's biggest event of the week. I still get a kick out of weighing babies (especially the healthy ones) and working with the CSCOM staff (my coworker Dusu is pictured here).


That’s me with one of the community health workers, Kuru, doing a presentation on reproductive health with the Koyan Women’s Group. The community health workers have really stepped it up, and are doing more and more health prevention activities in the villages.


Mangos are done and the rains have come. This was a storm over the Niger we witnessed from our conference room in Bamako. The whole meeting stopped and people rushed to the windows feeling like the building was going to be picked up by the wind.



My friend Kiatu has avowed to teach me everything Malian before I leave. This day we walked about 2 miles to cut firewood in the brush, which we carried back to village on our heads (much to the amusment of the Malians).


I still can't believe how mature Shaka is these days. A regular teenager, he keeps himself busy nowadays hauling wild fruit to sell at the market, and using some of the money to buy presents for his new girlfriend, Marie. (It's very sweet). He still find every so often to hit the trails with me.


Caroline and I at Hunter's going away party, in between street dancing songs. I've been so blessed with awesome teammates and hope to stay close with them long after service is up.



Here's the mural project we did in Tomba with 3rd and 4th graders on the Food Groups. Kids worked in pairs to draw different healthy foods and then presented their work to the community with a song and nutrition demonstration.





Last week, 6 PCVs, most of them Water/Sanitation volunteers, agreed to come to my site to do evaluations on the 54 top well repairs we've done. They had great insight to give my committee on technical and behavioral/sanitation improvements we can strive for to make the project sustainable and more effective.