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Volunteers' Houses in Burkina Faso
Not all Peace Corps volunteers in Burkina Faso have as
comfortable a house as my house (with electricity, running water, etc.). But
we all have a safe and healthy place to live with lots of character and our own
set of challenges. Even at my house, the electricity and water are often shut off or not
working. A few other education volunteers have electricity or plumbing, but most of them
live without either. And essentially all the health volunteers live in small
villages without electricity. At some point, we all have to deal with bathing from a bucket of water, using a
latrine, and reading/working by candlelight or the light of a lantern.
Here are pictures of some of the volunteers' homes in my
region and in the area around Bobo-Dioulasso. You can try to locate these villages on a great
online map.
Click on a thumbnail to see a larger photo.
Maggie's
(then Andy's) delightful terrace in Séguénéga
(near Ouahigouya)
February 2000 |
Kristen's abode in Kalsaka
(not far from
Séguénéga) is provided by the local student parents' group.
March 2000
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Cindy's
(then Liz's) place in Djibo--
Construction on the wall is almost done!
(They say electricity is coming to Djibo, located northeast of Ouahigouya.)
March 2000
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Suzanne with Puck (and John) at
her cozy mud-brick home in Kalsaka, the same site as Kristen, but a
different situation since Suzanne was a health volunteer and Kristen was a
teacher.
March 2000
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Bruce planted some great purple flowers over a year
before this picture in his Koumbri courtyard, just north of Ouahigouya. Bruce (and his successor,
Chris) have two lights that run off a car battery.
March 2000
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Will and friends at his home in
Thiou, north of Ouahigouya. The world map in his
salon was a trial run before undertaking a project for students to paint one at school.
March 2000
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Tammy's new wall in Méné
(a tiny village north of Ouahigouya) got a gate just after this photo with Bruce, John, and
friends.
March 2000 |
Sure it looks small, but actually Anne's house is only a third of
this duplex in Titao (near Ouahigouya).
March 2000
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Monica
manages to plant a garden where none have dared to try
(at her home in Bondukuy
north of Bobo).
Summer
2001
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Yiaway's
house in Djigouera, near Orodaro in the Bobo
region (the donkeys are visitors)
Summer
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All photos are copyright
Cathy Seeley. All rights reserved. No photo may be reproduced without
permission except for small group educational purposes or with permission
of the volunteer(s) in the photograph.
For other uses, please contact Cathy
Seeley.
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