Orchid Project’s Knowledge and Programmes Coordinator Lucy spent two weeks in Senegal participating in the pilot of the Tostan Training Centre (TTC). Here is a selection of photos from the week…
- Tostan staff welcoming the participants
- Participants working with the Platform of Women for Peace in Casamance, Senegal
- In session, discussing community well-being
- Gerry Mackie with Karamo, working with RAID and Edrisa, Tostan Assistant Coordinator in The Gambia
- Discussing what we are learning in small groups
- On our way to visit Keur Simbara
- Wonderful welcome as we get off the bus in Keur Simbara
- Music and dancing…
- TTC participants join in
- The girls join in
- TTC participants doing the traditional Maasai dance
- The girls in the village read us their poem on democracy and human rights
- CMC coordinator, Mamadou Konate, presents their community’s ten year vision
- The women put on a skit on discrimination, abuse of human rights and FGC
- Members of Keur Simbara and surrounding communities attended the meeting
- CMC Treasurer Doussou Kounate – now a solar engineer – shares information on human rights and what has changed in their village
- Demba Diawara, village chief and imam, talks about how their community and surrounding villages ended FGC
- Amos, working with SAFE Maa, asks a question
- Mam, TTC participant, thanks the village for sharing with us
- Back at the training centre, we present the characteristics of our heros
- Oureye Sall, a former cutter, with other members of the Social Mobilisation Team from Kaolack
- Senegalese wrestlers
- Women who have just participated in the Tostan post-module reinforcement of parental practices at the Community meeting in Keur Mbaye Seni
- Listening to the presentation by the local imam
- Girls in the crowd
- Dancing and talking in the village after the meeting
- Cess, working with Orchid partner ECAW in Kenya, talking with girls in the village
- Amos presenting his learnings to TTC participants and observers
- Panel with community management committee
- “What Tostan did in our community fit in with the teachings of the Quran – it showed us how to learn”
