Tag Archive: Peace Corps

Daniel, an Education Peace Corps Volunteer, has been serving in Cameroon since May 2015.  He teaches high school physics to large classes of 60 students each.  I took an opportunity to interview Daniel because he is another Peace Corps Volunteer who also happens to have a disability.  He is an amputee and wears a prosthetic […]

Last Sunday, I took an almost six hours round-trip to Small Babanki, a town just outside of Bamenda, to present HIV Prevention to another group of persons with disabilities. At the presentation, one woman asked, “At what age is the limit for women to have sex?” “Until when they die,” I responded. “AH!” the woman squealed. […]

On February 14, in honor of Valentine’s Day, I hosted a Men as Partners activity by asking two disability groups, Helping Each Other and Northwest Association of Women with Disabilities, to come together and participate in learning about gender inequality in the disability community.  The activity we conducted was called “Fishbowl.”   During the first […]

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. – Anthony Bourdain Wherever I traveled in the world, I always found a McDonald’s.  I saw a McDonald’s in the town center of Cusco, […]

I’ve got to see you again I could almost go there Just to watch you be seen I could almost go there Just to live in a dream – From I’ve Got to See You Again by Norah Jones Love life.  It comes with both joys and challenges. When I first submitted my application for […]