Tag Archive: Peace Corps

After living and working in Cameroon’s third largest city as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I finally had an opportunity to get a taste of living and working in a rural village with another Peace Corps Volunteer, Alex.  It’s important to note that I have never visited another volunteer’s post except for one who lived about […]

Last February, shortly after I gave a presentation on my Community Needs Assessment at In-service Training, Alex came to me and said, “I want you to come to my post and help me start a disability group and train healthcare workers to work with persons with disabilities.”  Alex mentioned to me that in his compound, […]

I’m currently in Mbakaou, a village in southern Adamawa, visiting Alex’s post for the very first time (finally!!!) to collaborate a project with him. Alex and I both have been stargazing for the past two nights.  It’s been a few years since I have been in a countryside where I could see stars. Even though […]

About two months ago when I learned that I would be returning to Mengong where I lived for the first two months in Cameroon for training to give a presentation to a group of new volunteers who arrived in Cameroon last September, I immediately informed the host family with whom I stayed in Mengong that […]

For many years, I ran a successful blog on cochlear implants and hearing loss.  About eight years ago, a mom who was born deaf contacted me by e-mail through my blog.  She recently gave birth to a son who was also born deaf.  The mother never received a cochlear implant and she primarily communicated in […]