The envelope please...

Trioribugou, pop. 4,000, is the name of my permanent site.

Although located just 200Km outside of Bamako (I'm the third closest volunteer to the capital), the village has no electricity and a barely functioning CSCOM I will formaly work at, which is highly trafficked by women and (malnourished) children. The major accomplishment of the current PCV is (and I quote) 'getting a wall up on the pharmacy and said pharmacy stocked with medicine.'

The current PCV requested another volunteer after she leaves for two reasons. First, she relized too late how willing and excited the first and second cycle schools were. The school administrators have requested another volunteer to create an educational program for kids ages 8 to 12 about nutrition and physical fitness. They also want the volunteer to work with the formal soccer teams.

Second, Triobugou has five other 500 person villages less than 10 km away. They each want the volunteer to implement a similar nutrition and fitness program geared toward decreasing widespread childhood and infant malnutrition. The current volunteer just started biking out to each of these villages.

The last page of the description reads: 'needs a volunteer willing to work in highly informal environment with schools and women's association, who likes sports, and who is willing to bike alot.'

Flip the page, and there appears my resume.