Friday, September 17, 2010

Muddy Waters

The most recent trip to Tongo gave us the walkin' blues as we braved the sludge to bring you these photos:





The roof is finished and all the walls have been primed with cement.



What remains is to put cement down on the floors and paint the walls.












The contractor estimates that the work could be finished in as little as 15 days. We've got 40 days and 40 nights left in Mali (yes, we're counting), so we should definitely see it finished. All I can say is: I'm ready.

2 comments:

Kyle Patrick Gilmore said...

I'm your hoochie coochie man, Everybody knows I'm him!

peter shapland said...

I am an RPCV from a village south of Kayes. I am trying to reach out to local agricultural NGOs for a small grant program that we are developing at Horticulture CRSP. This grant program will connect agricultural NGOs in the developing world to horticultural graduate students in the US. It will fund honoraria for grad students and salaries and transportation costs for the agricultural NGOs. Together they will extend new ideas from US universities to developing-world farmers.

Could you please email me if you know of any local Ag. NGOs in Mali that would be interested in this opportunity? And could you please send me the email address of Mali’s Ag. APCD or any of the Ag. PCVs?

I would really appreciate any help you can offer.

Thank you,

Peter Shapland
pcshapland@ucdavis.edu
Graduate Assistant
Horticulture CRSP
www.hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu