PC Senegal 2011 - Day 4 - In the Village

By: Melody Mumford, Resident Physician, UIC 2011-01-17

1st night in Saraya under the mosquito nets was unremarkable. Woke up to a rooster crow at around 4:30 am, was in and out of sleep after that. Got up around 7:10 am…another cold bucket shower…very invigorating! Peace Corps volunteers brought bread, jam, coffee and nutella. We then headed over to the hospital and Andrew, Chris (PCV), Paulette and I headed to Kedegou in the back of an ambulance. Our...

By: Tracy Irwin, MD, MPH 2011-01-18

The community of Saraya has welcomed us warmly. Our Peace Corps comrades (Leah, Meera and Chris) and Nora's knowledge of bambara has allowed us to stop at almost every shop and compound to say hello. This included the tailor where Nora got a skirt (pange) made, then to the village chief that was sitting outside the post office. There is a lot of value/respect in ones name and by now...

By: Andrew 2009-01-01

Thank you very much to all who voted for this idea. The advancement of Peace Care into the second round of voting to be held from January 5 through January 15 is significant. This is a powerful opportunity for Peace Care to gain more traction. Between now and the end of voting, we would like to encourage everyone to continue to reach out to your friends, family, colleagues, and coworkers...

By: Karen Peters 2011-01-14

The day began early, really early with Andrew meeting me at the Airport around 6:30AM. We cabbed it to the Hotel and I caught a few (very few) winks. The team headed to Peace Corps office Senegal (with some delicious croissants) for an orientation and to meet our Peace Corps partners at the administrative level. Taxi transportation around Dakar and Senegal in general is an experience in and of itself....

By: Andrew 2008-12-11

Welcome to my Peace Care Blog!!! In this blog I will be exploring global health in addition to graduate medical education and its role in global health. Primarily, I will be discussing my initiative entitled Peace Care. Peace Care is a proposed collaboration that brings together Peace Corps and US resident physicians to improve the health of global communities. The basis of Peace Care would be that Peace Corps Volunteers...