Category Archive: Peace Corps

In order to identify which issue needs the most attention and understand how to solve problems in a community, all Peace Corps Volunteers are typically required to do an assignment called Community Needs Assessment during the first three months at their post. There are various ways to do Community Needs Assessment. One could go door-to-door […]

If one asked my parents 25 years ago yesterday where I would be today as a young adult, they would have not been able to answer. December 21st, 1989 was the day when I first received a cochlear implant as part of a clinical trial at New York University as it was not yet approved […]

Yesterday marked exactly one month since I swore in as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I’m not going to lie. I have faced a lot of difficulties and frustrations during my first month at post. It was a time when I finally for the first time realized and understood the challenges and frustrations that Peace Corps […]

Because I’m one of those people who get mosquito bites very easily, I have been determined since arriving in Cameroon to try to get as little to no mosquito bites. Malaria is something that I definitely do not want to have during my service as I often hear how it will make one person very […]

Cameroon is a country where modernization can seem so out of sync. Cell phone signal is far more accessible than water. Most people who do not have direct access to water in the home own a cell phone and can talk freely in the rural areas. Many cell phones sold in Cameroon can hold two […]