Tag Archive: Peace Corps

In the past couple weeks, I gave three additional HIV Prevention workshops to persons with disabilities.  I traveled to an area called “Bamenda I.”  While this area is still part of the city of Bamenda, it’s located far from the center of the city and is on the outskirts.  I presented to a large group of […]

I was so happy to say goodbye to dust season last week, March 1st, when the rain finally poured for the first time since November.  This was probably the happiest time I have ever been about seeing rain! For a few weeks prior to the first day of rain of the rainy season, I have […]

Ruth and I were both sitting squashed in one seat in the front of a van.  We were heading back to Bamenda from a long journey to a village for an HIV Prevention workshop a couple Sundays ago.  “I heard that Hillary Clinton won Nevada!” I turn to Ruth and look at her in shock, […]

I marched in the parade with several other women with disabilities in Bamenda. I would like to take an opportunity to review facts about women with disabilities in general and also about what women with disabilities face in Cameroon and also in other developing countries: Fifteen percent of all women in the world are women […]

I’ve been finding that it’s quite funny that people got riled up over Whole Food selling peeled oranges in plastic containers and accused other people of being lazy for peeling oranges. Here in Cameroon, it’s an everyday scene to find peeled oranges sold on the streets everywhere. Cameroonians prefer to buy oranges that have already […]