Public Health

  • Helping treat patients at a clinic that distributes Malarial drugs and training midwives for the village of Hanene and 21 surrounding villages.
  • Assisting public health organization with disease mapping.
  • Working in a womens' maternal health clinic.
  • Providing health care to people in rural areas.

Women's Groups

  • Traveling to villages to assist in conferences on violence against women, marriage and the legal aspects of divorce in Senegal.
  • Working in the information and accounts departments of an organization that helps women achieve self-sufficiency.
  • Working with a Dakar-based women's association to analyze data about the roles of Senegalese women.

Small Business Development

  • Working in a company to balance finances and help with accounting and processing loan applications.

  • Working in a rural area with women’s groups undertaking micro-financing.

  • Participating in the implementation and evaluation of adult literacy programs focusing on skills necessary for running small businesses.

Environmental Protection

  • Taking soil samples in Kaolack, analyzing the samples at a lab in Bambey, and helping to write the research results.
  • Working on reforestation in the Saloum area.
  • Observing chimpanzees and recording data for anthropological research.

Education

  • Teaching English to a classroom of 60 in a Catholic school.
  • Teaching English and French to people of all different levels and ages.

Sustainable Agriculture

  • Working on a farm that is experimenting with new seeds and more sustainable ways to irrigate the soil.
  • Harvesting sweet potatoes in the fields of Sebikotane.
  • Monitoring irrigation, cutting and tilling of soil on farms in the city of Sebikotane.

Social Services

  • Monitoring immigration patterns, trends, causes, etc. in Senegal and West Africa.
  • Working in a day nursery at an orphanage.
  • Training migrant families in computers, English and French.

Community Organizing

  • Making children's toys from recycled materials, working in a hooking bag stand with teenagers, and teaching and playing music with a children's band.
  • Researching possible solutions to problems with eco-tourism such as prostitution, higher dropout rates and environment.
 
Last modified on June 30, 2009