by One of many friends of Guéoul | Jun 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
When I learned about the Friends of Guéoul, one of my first questions was “why girls and not boys?”.
by One of many friends of Guéoul | Apr 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
What’s it like out there in the sub-Saharan town of Guéoul, Sénégal? Where people struggle to make a good life for themselves? Where some struggle just to make ends meet? Where poor girls are frequently made household servants or married off at age 12 or 14 because...
by One of many friends of Guéoul | Apr 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
NDANK-NDANK MOOY JAPP GOLO CI NAAY The title is a Wolof saying that literally means, “little by little one catches the monkey in the bush,” which is another way of saying that “things take time.” “Ndank-ndank” is a very Senegalese notion of time, where rushing is not...
by One of many friends of Guéoul | Apr 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve written thousands of prescriptions over my 40 years as a physician, but until now I’d never written a prescription saying “Attend School” or “Stay in School”. This prescription may save or improve more lives than all the prescriptions I’ve written for drugs for...
by One of many friends of Guéoul | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Our recent trip to Senegal highlighted the difference in resources that we have available here and in Senegal. My friend Brent and I went to Gueoul to upgrade the infrastructure in our computer classroom there. For a relatively modest expenditure of money, we were...
