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Derek Martin, Senegal RPCV 1995
What is the Peace Corps?
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the
 Peace Corps to promote world peace and friendship.

Its mission has three simple goals:

   1.Helping the people of interested countries in
    meeting their need for trained men and
    women.

   2.Helping promote a better understanding of
    Americans on the part of the peoples served.

   3.Helping promote a better understanding of
    other peoples on the part of Americans.
Who and Where?
More than 195,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have
served in139 host countries
What do they PC Volunteers Do?
   Current Programs
    Education
    Youth Outreach
    Community Development
    Business Development
    Agriculture and Environment
    Health and HIV/AIDS
    Information technology
Republic of Senegal
• Population: over 11 million, 70 percent live in rural areas
• Democracy with 7 year presidential term
• Religion: 95% Muslim, 4% Catholic, 1% animist
Friday Prayer
Ethnicity & Language in Senegal

      Peul     Serer
      24%      15%

                       Lebou
                        10%
                               Jola
    Wolof                       4%
    43%
                           Mandinke
                        Other 3%
                         1%
First Day….Stage
Home Stay: Cisse Family
Cheik the Sai Sai
My Personal Space
A jangi Pulaar
Feeling confident before the Village
Transport
Kalidou & Maimouna Diallo
Kids on the well
Ousman Balde #1 & #3
My Bathroom
My Hut
Family Compound
A Day in the life…Breakfast
Greetings….

1.Salaam Aleikum        “Aleikum Salaam”
2.On Jarama?
3.Tana Ala?
4.Mbad-Da a Galle?
5.Ana Celli?            “Jam Tan”
6.Mbad da Ligge woni?
7.Mbad da Sarre woni
Pindy Diallo (the dinner bandit)
Dry Season
Wet Season
Industry: Cattle
Milk
Rice
Peanuts
Fish
My Partner, YaYa Kande
My “Sidekick” Cato
Projects
 Unsuccessful projects = Imposed approach without
 local ownership
   • Cultural festival
   • Merchant community Bank
   • Batik Brothers
 Successful Project = locally generated, driven, and
 sustained
   • Banana plantation
   • Traditional Wrestling
   • Market Garden
   • Soap making
• Community lending
Wrestling Project
Konkoran – spiritual police
Derek Martin, PeaceCorps Senegal 1993-1995
Village Idiot
Basaari Rites of Passage
“Le Masque”
The Fight
Boy becomes a man
28 months later….
Giving Back – The impossible equation


      Your Involvement


                           Your
          •Experience
          •Learning      Community
          •Maturity
          •Confidence
YOU


      How can you get involved?
Questions?

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Derek Martin, PeaceCorps Senegal 1993-1995