Despite my bumpy departure from the United States, I arrived safely in Mali the evening of 2 August 2008. After a small rest on part of the day Sunday, I went to work getting final preparations made for our second pilot study. Our plan for the second pilot was to go to a rural village to screen a small number of women for cervical cancer. We spe...

So I am finally in Bamako and nominally having a day off today but we will see how that pans out. After Timbuktu we headed for Dogon Country... maybe one of the most stunning places in the world, the Dogon Escarpment is home to over 700 villages that are not acessable (mostly) by road and require visitors to walk to get around. It's damn hot dow...

I ni sou!!! (bonsoir en bambara) 2e journée au Mali! Il fait chaud et beau. on a eu notre 1ere tempete de sable hier et cétait quelque chose!!!! oufffff pauvre verre de contact!entk!! a date jadore!!! La maison est génial, leau a du bon sang meme si ca goute le chlore une fois traité. La bouffe est bonne; hier on a meme mangé du spaghetti tres t...

I have a hangover, but I'm out on the streets at 9am. I am alive and loving Africa - ok, I might still be a bit ******. But I honestly think I could do it all over again. I just don't have enough socks. I do a solo walking tour of Bamako: it's a small but buzzing town and I see far more than I did on my initial tour back on Day 1. The main stree...

Visit National Museum, scenic overview of Bamako, and Canadian Embassy. Bamako is also a big sprawling city, with thousands of tiny shops and stores. Find out that a French keyboard for the computer differs form ours and this makes messaging quite difficult. No use trying to keep clean in West Africa, you immediately get dirty the next day. The ...

dear friends well after leaving since july 26, i met my fellow pc members in philly: we had " days of intro to pc and i got the most wonderful visits from loves, it was a great send off: since then, we left for Mali and were at the pc training site for about a week: now, i alog with 8 others are in a small town outside of the capital city. i am ...

It seems like an awfully long time since we last posted an update, and although we've moved ov** 1000 kilometres, it seemed like we hadn't really done a great deal until we started to write this. We spent Christmas and New Year in the Casamance, south**n Senegal, exploring the area south of the riv** and staying in (or more accurately, outside) ...