Internship

Here are some photos from my internship! I work with an organization called Culture d'Enfance (Culture of Children) which works to promote the "rights" of children, such as the right to education, to good health, to cultural, to food, etc. They do different projects where they travel around Senegal and use art projects (like collages, photography, theater etc.) to teach kids a specific lesson. For example one of their past projects was to take photos or draw a picture of some part of Spanish culture that they learned about. Another project was to make a comic strip that informed people of the symptoms and preventions of Paludisme, a mosquito-caused disease. 

The project that we are currently doing in these pictures is at an orphanage. We are teaching the kids about hygene. Last Tuesday we went to their classroom and had each student think of a phrase, such as "wash your hands" or "brush your teeth." We would then write down the phrase in bubble letters so that they could color in the letters than cut them out and paste them onto a poster. So by the end there was a giant collage of phrases and other decorations that the kids made. 

The organization is great and I really like my supervisor. My main problem is that the kids only speak wolof, so my job is more about helping with the arts and crafts than interacting with the kids. Hopefully that will change as the program goes on and as I learn more Wolof phrases.