A few weeks ago, I led yet another girls' camp, this time in Sam. We covered the same material as the Sonsoro camp, but this time we invited every girl in the Sam Middle School, and nearly every girl came (around 50 girls). Another innovation was that we brought four girls from the Sonsoro camp and had them run many of the sessions. We are hoping that this experience will allow them to take a leading role in subsequent editions of the Sonsoro camp (when I will not be around to coordinate).
The Sam camp was a roaring success, and my co-organizer (the person who originally asked me to do a camp in Sam) is planning to run such a camp twice a year indefinitely. At the request of some parents, he also wants to organize a few days of camp for local middle school boys.
Below are a few pictures from the camp:
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| Two girls from Sonsoro are teaching the campers how to make a fuel-efficient mud stove |
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| A Sonsoro girl is leading the group in song at our closing ceremony |
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| We celebrated the end of the camp with traditional local dancing, accompanied by drummers |
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| The four girls from Sonsoro and my camp co-organizer |
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