Author Archives: Rachel

When I was on the plane heading to Cameroon from Brussels for the very first time last September 2014, I was sitting next to a very quiet woman who was also a soon-to-be Peace Corps Volunteer.  I was exhausted and so, I selfishly didn’t take a moment to converse with her to get to know […]

When I first arrived in Cameroon and I was living with a host family, all family members had a phone that could only make and receive calls and send and receive texts.  When I revisited them one year later, every one of them had a smartphone.  My host father had joined Facebook.  They were all […]

On Christmas Day this past December, I was at Hilda’s house and Hilda and I were conversing various topics ranging from current issues to everyday cultural differences to travel plans.  When I shared my travel plans to Kribi, one of the beaches in Cameroon, with Alex, I shared that there is a limited number of […]

As I have discussed in previous blog posts, access to HIV education and services is a prominent issue in the disability community.  To help increase the willingness of persons with disabilities to talk openly and knowledgeably about HIV/AIDS in their groups, families and communities so that they can help each other prevent HIV/AIDS, I gave […]

Last month, I followed up my malaria evaluation by revisiting seven of the ten homes of select people who participated in the workshop and first round of home visits.  Just to quickly recap the first malaria evaluation, all homes except for two homes had mosquito nets although one home didn’t have mosquito nets for all […]