Materi, Benin

This is Africa
Nov 9, 2003

... speak Biali, so we'll have to see if we can find someone who can teach us this laanguage during the rest of training. Materi is a little spread out, but there are lots of grassy areas, but also spots of trees, mostly eucalyptus, which is grown for ...

One Month to go!!!
Oct 11, 2005

... took time to go do some things that we've been meaning to do ever since we got to post. Right on the outskirts of Materi there is a "mountain/hill" that we've been talking about climbing with our friend Dassibou for a long time. Well finally one day we set ...

Pictures
May 24, 2005

Here are some new pictures

Welcome to the CHALOR (hot season in french)
Feb 26, 2004

... besides the heat everything else is going pretty well in Materi. Rebecca just finished this months "Tour de baby weighing" around materi. Every month there are certain villages way out in the bush that her and her work partner go visit and weigh babies ...