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The electric power in Cameroon can go off at any time for seconds, minutes, hours or even days. During my first week in Fundong the power was off over 50% of the time. Adjusting to village life in the dark tested my fortitude. The week I moved into my new and improved accommodations, my landlord, […]

I was standing at the top of the hill near my small house in Fundong, watching kids as young as three years old carried bowls on their heads filled with water from the dirty stream below. The women and older children marched up from the stream, balancing like circus performers large five gallon containers on […]

Yesterday Leo and I visited a remote village named Nchuo Bissi. I should have realized if we were walking down a mountain, we would have to climb up the mountain to get back. But at that moment I just wanted to arrive at our destination. Leo does a lot of volunteer work, giving free seeds […]

Hopeless in Cameroon The first day in Fundong I spent riding around on the back of Leos motorcycle, searching for a decent living situation. Leo still could not understand why I was not satisfied with the dark, damp basement he had chosen for me. The places I wanted to rent where all taken by government […]