Gabon Summer '15

Another project was to create hand washing stations for the children and teach them to wash their hands before and after and meal + after going to the bathroom.  The hand washing stations can ...

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sberre : > curatedafrica :  >  >>  Gabon’s name originates from “Gabão”, Portuguese for >>  “cloak”, which is roughly the shape of the estuary of the Komo >>...

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Maya filtrating and filling water bottles with fresh drinking water from collected rain water. 

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Working on a small scale electric fence made out of bamboo fence. The purpose of this demonstration was encourage the people of Massenguelani to build a larger scale one around their plantations....

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Sunset in Massenguelani, Gabon 6:24pm 

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ILLUSTRATION TEAM In addition on physically working on our projects, we needed an illustration team to instruct how to build and put together these designs. The instructions were beautifully il...

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The strenuous process of brick making is exhibited in these photos of students grinding up cement, additionally sand and clay had to be excavated locally. John (Stamps prof.) designed the brick m...

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May 16, 2015 11:01 AM Older boys in the village play cards in the early afternoon while drinking water and eating white rice. Their confused faces may have been a result of a communication erro...

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May 16, 2015 10:59AM Three young boys in the village pose for a picture. The central figure holds up “peace signs” influenced by the American rapper posters plastered on several homes. Alt...

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May 16, 2015 11:48AM The second’s chief’s wife with a machete in hand after sewing the ground in one of the nearby plantations. She is accompanied by young Cherise in her lilac floral dres...

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Kira (left) and Jack (right) working on the one of the plantations owned by the village of Massenguelani. They are planting corn kernels with machetes.

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English lessons with the school children in Massenguelani  ft. Jane, Maya, Carly, Maggie, Taylor

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May 18, 2015  These four children come up the hill with a dead cobra with its head cut off to show all of us. These boys insisted on posing like “rappers from the U.S.” Blood was still co...

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Of course as art students, we have to draw with the children in village!  May 16, 2015 

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Home stays May 15-17 Students chose partners prior to the trip for home stays. Each of us spent two nights with our host families and helped out around the house. Many of us helped around the h...

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Massenguelani is a village in central Gabon with around 100-200 people. The most prominent language spoken there is French, however other dialects are spoken there as well. It is one of the only ...

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May 12, 2015  Crocodile Hunt   photo creds: Victoria Zakrzewski

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Lope Convenience Store May 14th 2015 - Today will be our first day in village, but first some of the ecoexplorers went grocery shopping for items such as bottled water, food staples, toilette p...

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Photograph taken in Lope, Gabon.  May 13, 2015 

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Later that day on May 13th, the group had dinner with Ghislain and Kim at a local restaurant in Lope. Most of us had a large portion of rice and fish. The ambiance of the restaurant included goat...

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