6. Scenes of Dar Salaam

Boubacar and Omar, host brothers. Behind them, the rice harvest underway.

Boubacar and Omar

Chaffing rice

Chaffing rice. Harvest labor is mostly gendered. 

Hitting rice, 

to separate the grain from the stalk,

in unison. 

My hut from the back.

The route back to Kedougou

Duwa, clearing land for a garden space.

Dar Salam Women’s Garden. Guess my job here is done.

Future women in the Women's Garden

With no money for watering cans they have another way to evenly water beds here.
Flick o’ the wrist.

Women’s Garden. They are on it.

Compound at the edge of the village at sunset.

Dar Salaam women's group breaks ground on a newly fenced addition to their garden space. 

Kelsey, another PCV, and Mamadou Minté plant bananas in the Master Farm

Minté in his Master Farm.

Chameleon on a mango tree.

Gambia River, 10 minutes away.

Gambia river, kids forge to play soccer in a village on the other side.

Omar, Boubacar and Mamadou. Host Brothers.
Each has a different mother, but all the same father. 

Host moms; Amiñata, back left, Fatoumata, with son Omar, back right, Binta, front right. Woman in the center is Fatoumata, who is Fatoumata’s daughter, and her son Ousmane is on her right. Here they render Shea butter/oil.

With host moms, sister and brothers

My backyard