by One of many friends of Guéoul | Sep 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
IMPACT STATEMENT Friends of Guéoul, Inc. July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 Our scholarships have been given to 145 students over 11 years, of whom 117 remain in public school. Our core mission is to select each year 12 of the poorest girls in Guéoul ready to enter first...
by One of many friends of Guéoul | Aug 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
A volunteer team is being formed to work in the Denver area to upgrade a summer school in Guéoul, Sénégal (teaching French, Math) and create two new programs (English intensive and computer skills) all using eLearning as a teaching tool. We are gathering a team of...
by One of many friends of Guéoul | Jul 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Traveling to a third-world country is an adventure! Guéoul, Sénégal—a world where transportation is by donkey or by foot. Where the day’s meal is slow-cooked on an open fire. Where vivid people move slowly and savor time with their friends and relatives. Where there’s...
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...
