• Uglyhead@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Had a friend working in Burkina Faso for the Peace Corps. She built a very small library. It got torn down and the whole group was in trouble. This was years ago now.

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      10 months ago

      A friend of mine also did Peace Corps work there. She had to pretend she was married to someone in an adjacent village to deter getting kidnapped and forced into marriage.

      A more lighthearted (but scary at the time) moment was when a bat peed into her eye while she was using the outhouse. No diseases, thankfully. She’s been back in the US now for a number of years and loved the work she did while she was over there.

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        10 months ago

        Despite everything that happened there my friend loved it too. She went on to travel the world doing similar works.