“I say hi to my piglet every morning!” - Peace Corps Lesotho Volunteer Sarah http://bit.ly/2dXiJsT
Springtime means peach blossoms. The season is short-lived but beautiful.
Planning a two-week, 10 hour life skills intensive for our Grade 6 and 7 boys at school. We’re taking lesson plans from a variety of Peace Corps and NGO materials and putting together a curriculum that teaches sexual health, consent and rape, violence against women, alcohol abuse and HIV.
Meanwhile, the girls will be having their own intensive using the Grassroots Soccer Skillz Girl program - the one ’M'e Lequasa and I were trained in last year. Peace Corps’ highest goal is sustainability; in other words, making sure that the initiatives we undertake with our community will continue after we’ve gone. Because I’ll be devoting my energy to pioneering the boys’ curriculum with one of our male teachers, Ntate Mantsoe, ’M'e Lequasa will be teaching the girls all by herself. I’m all puffed up with pride for her abilities.
In the last care package from the parents, Mom packed a dozen copies of National Geographic. I absolutely love NatGeo, and turns out my kids feel the same. This group of boys spent hours outside my house, jabbing fingers at pictures of fossils from America, farmers from Malawi, nomadic herders from Afghanistan, and ship breakers from Bangladesh - whole worlds they’d never seen before. It was a magical Saturday.
Wonderful image shared by Peace Corps Lesotho taken by Volunteer Chelsea. There are 83 Volunteers in Lesotho working with their communities on projects in education and health. During their service in Lesotho, Volunteers learn to speak Sesotho. More than 2,390 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in Lesotho since the program was established in 1967. http://bit.ly/2bCGLvi
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Blanket-wearing weather
Winter in Lesotho means it is time for wearing blankets.
A look at local culture in Lesotho.
During winter break I made a visit to my training village, Ha Koali. Watching sunset football games just like in 2014.
“It’s not about me—It’s about everything else. These are my feelings standing at the top of the highest pass I’ve traveled in Lesotho, looking out at this view and reminiscing on one year in Lesotho.” - Peace Corps Lesotho Volunteer Alicia http://bit.ly/2aylXWj
“We made bubble wands from sticks and yarn. 5 of the 6 we made didn’t work, but the one that did—the Grade 6 girls in my health class went nuts over! Hoping to master the technique and make kids all over Thaba Tseka magically happy on soapy bubbles.” - Peace Corps Lesotho Volunteer Alicia http://bit.ly/2aBwRpS
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❄️❄️ SNOW DAY! ❄️❄️
Autumn weather have you itching for a pumpkin spice latte? In Lesotho, the favorite fall treat is roasted potatoes, and I’ve got the cravings bad. Locals stick the spuds directly in the coals of a fire, and when they’re soft and cooked through, they literally play hot potato as they peel off the burnt skin. Underneath is heaven - it tastes like earth and fire and fall steaming in your hand.
My host dad loves potatoes, and built a huge bonfire to roast about 20 of them after they finished harvesting. We sat around at dusk picking potatoes out of the fire just as it was starting to rain. One of my favorite nights in this country.
Remote HIV outreach hike to a remote village in the mountains near Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Peace Corps volunteers helped identify mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in the most remote areas of Lesotho. Volunteers provided assistance with nutrition education, identifying health care opportunities, seeds & gardening resources. Lesotho has the 3rd highest HIV rate in the world, and limited health care to remote areas.