Malaria Tourney

So far, I've spent a few days of Ramadan in Doundodji not fasting, and when the lunch bowl came looking like this:

... I wished I was fasting. So that's the plan as of tomorrow, or I'll be pretending to fast and eating delicious America snacks in my room. Anything to avoid the greasy rice bowl with gelatinous cow parts and dried fish hidden inside. Yuck.

In other news, all of team Linguere has spent the last week visiting each of our villages to do presentations, skits, and demonstrations on malaria prevention. All in all, over the course of 4 days, we visited 11 villages and spoke to about 1300 people. Every village had a great turnout and everyone was enthusiastic about the whole thing. We also had a really fun time making total fools of ourselves... for entertainment and education value of course.

Mboula - Emily talking about mosquito nets

back-of-the-truck mango eating by Mac

Ngaraff - Making neem lotion

Doundodji - there was dancing!

Doundodji - Abby and my counterpart's little sister got the crowd going

Doundodji - a little theatre by Ann Marie and Justin

Mac and I perfected our Pulaar squat and taught the crowd that drinking too much milk may give you gas, but it sure doesn't cause malaria.

Doundodji - the crowd under a neem tree

Linguere - Abby, Ann Marie, and Emily even did a radio show to talk about our project.

Xhol Xhol - Team Linguere with our Peace Corps driver/helper extraordinaire, Tidiane

Xhol Xhol - record attendance

Neem lotion - it may look delicious, but don't eat it...

Between stops, Justin was our tour guide

Diagely - the men were front and center

Diagely - Abby took the stage between skits dressed as a mosquito caught up in a net.

Diagely - Kim ran the show in Pulaar.

...then the storm rolled in

and we celebrated the coming of the rains

did a rain dance

and called it a day.