Togo, West Africa… Adventures in the Peace Corps
J’adore Afrique. How do you summarize two years into one page? When I learned I had secured a place in the Community Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Program with the United States Peace Corps and they called to tell me I would be leaving in September for a French speaking country in West Africa I screamed with excitement. It was a dream come true. We, volunteers, all have different reasons for joining. Honestly, most of us are running away from something. A decent majority are sincerely interested in the program they are entering and think the twenty-seven months they spend in service will help to achieve greater success in future endeavors. I fell somewhere in between. Having lived overseas before, I was aching to live once more in a French speaking country. Switzerland was too expensive to do on my own dime and I figured two years working as a health agent would help me to transition into a job in health communications upon my return stateside. Peace Corps West Africa was the perfect solution. I never imagined how close I would become to a country and customs so foreign from my own. I never imagined how many similarities I would find that would forever endear me to these people. Each picture in the slide show above has it’s own story that would take pages to explain. In the group photo at the beginning of the video, where we all have our tongues sticking out, the white pill is an anti-malaria pill. Some of us took it every day; some of us took it once a week. We all had …
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@Neokitteny YOU WILL END UP DEAD WITH 5 GUYS CUM IN YOU LIKE THE LAST 1,000 GIRLS
There is a kid at my school from togo
So inspirational!
I want to join Peace Corps when I’m older, I know I can do it. Every once in a while I watch a video like this and it just inspires me to do good things, be patient, and be a hard worker. Someday, I’d like to help people in a foreign country, just like you did. Thank you so much for your video and for being a great person helping others
Kpalime is the way!! =D
beetoofr. Yes, parts of Africa are quite modern, however that was not part of my daughter’s experience while she was in the Peace Corp. If you are not happy with this video, feel free to make one of your own and share it.
Awesome, thanks for sharing this experience!
@beetoofr The point of this video was to show someone’s experience in the Peace Corps, not demonstrate all of the progress that has been made in any African country. I don’t know why you would act so offended by the pictures here. They’re beautiful, especially the ones of the children. I could practically feel the joy that was shown in their faces.
I’m really happy you did this: Experiencing another continent
very proud of you
@beetoofr true. A lot of westerners dont know much about the world simply because they dont need to. Its not their fault
me too. I love TOGO.
i think foreign countries like America need to stop playing with “Africa ” and start telling the truth …Africa is a continent not a country..also there is not only starving people in Africa…oh one more thing…Africa is not a jungle where there lion or elephant or whatever walking on the street….us African are tired of u people marketing all these lies about this beautiful continent …seriously it wont hurt u people to show how modern we are in Africa..thanks!
Thank you for making this video, it is very beautiful, and your story hit me emotionally. I hope to join the peace corps Africa when I finish college, it is such a beautiful continent and there is so much help to be done there
@LoeyRocks that’s great! I’m thinking of joining the peace corps after college. Def. a great experience.
@ggwindc1 I hope it brought back wonderful memories for you.
@jaraide12345678910 Thank you for replying to my video. My daughter learned to speak Ewe when she lived there in the Accra region, but I did not know what the song was saying, only that it came from a CD of Togolese music.
@jkesewa Yes, she did visit Ghana while living in Togo for two years. She visited most of the surrounding countries including Benin. Peace Corps was a great experience for her and many others.
@realanncampbell Yes, some are in Ghana… some in Mali and some in even in Timbuktu. My daughter lived in Togo for over two years and this is a compilation of her experiences while living there.
@ajetha786 Yes, the music is deceptive. but fun. The first song is actually a Togolese child, which I thought was pretty cool.
the music is deceptive this a tune for east africa not west africa. from the lion king. the exotic wild animals are in East africa (Tanzania & Kenya)
@realanncampbell i know, i thought the same thing when watching the video. i kept asking myself whether or not she went to Ghana as well.
Wow, those photos are so inspirational! Beautiful. They have made my mind up to do something similar! i’ll probably watch this a few more times in the meantime. thank you!
I found your pictures very interesting. However, I wish I had more information about where they were taken; it appears that at least some of them were in Ghana.
I loved this video!!! Your such a role model to me…I want to join the peace core so bad I am only 17 so I have some time before I actually go for it but thanks for the video your a real inspiration to my generation of girls
I loved this video!!! Your such a role model to me…I want to join the peace core so bad I am only 17 so I have some time before I actually go for it but thanks for the video your a real inspiration to my generation of girls
Touching video and very inspirational!