Kaolack (Cultural Center)

Yesterday, we traveled to Kaolack, which is known as the cultural center of Senegal. We met someone named Amad who is a coordinator of a NGO by the name of IFA. IFA is an internship project of financial development for the fight against poverty, only in rural areas. This project even allow training and give finance support, especially to businesses in the rural area. IFA was donated 1 billion cfes by Banks in Africa to proceed with there project. By doing this, they help to transform agriculture and to help people in the community, mainly women and young children to give them a "push" to help fight poverty. The biggest challenge is FAILURE among this project. Then we visited another NGO, International Federation of Family Planning (IPPF) which started in 1994 and helps women and their children as well in rural areas. After we left those two NGOs, we visit the head master of Tjonia which is a group of brotherhood.Their main role is to teach, work, and basically bring people together. It's like a school. While talking to the head of the brotherhood group, Tjonia, I realized that these brotherhood groups throughout Africa are just like fraternities and sororities which are in the United States. They're groups which come together as one and help each other who is affiliated with that particular organization as a sense of motivation and support for themselves, others, and even their communities. This was a very interesting socialization as a group, that took part on this Wednesday in Kaolack.
   -Levi Williams