One thing I still have yet to figure out is what to do with my trash. With no waste management system in the villages, it…
At a certain temperature, the fan doesn’t do anything but blow hot air. Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining! At least I have…
If you missed the bees, you would have mistaken us for one of the teams who had swarmed the region in the wake of Ebola just a few months earlier. Mesh face masks, red rubber gloves, black rubber boots and bulky jumpsuits exposing nothing, hiding even the fear. But there was no missing the bees
Who said a classroom had to have four walls? As a single working mother, Habbie rarely has a break, so I thought it’d be fun to move our study session to the riverside on her day off. She’s studying to take the high school exams, so she can meet the prerequisites for nursing school.
In The Gambia, it is culturally inappropriate to talk about menstruation. Even mothers rarely discuss it with their daughters, bolstering myths and stigmas that have lasted for generations. Islamic tradition dictates menses as “dirty” and bans women from touching the Koran or praying when they are menstruating.
Did you know cashews grow on fruit? I had no idea! One tiny cashew grows inside a shell on the tip of a juicy fruit,…
