The Gambia – Peace Corps Worldwide

Peace Corps/The Gambia

Nov 14 2023

In the news — by Pa Modou Cham The Point Nov 14, 2023 Peace Corps/The Gambia, on Monday, concluded a three-day youth convergence in their quest to contribute to the Gambia’s youth employability and development initiative and the fight against irregular migration. The event held at the GPI exposed participants to different domains of youth employability and empowerment such as Gender and Youth, sexual reproductive health rights and first aid, workplace norms and behaviours, orientation on CV development, job searching and matching, care guidance and interview techniques, migration and survival skill, peace-building, and social cohesion and conflict. Siiri Morley(Lesotho 2001-04), Peace Corps The Gambia Country Director explained that Peace Corps is a US agency working in partnership with countries around the world. She added that they are in the country through the invitation of the Gambia government to provide American skills and to partner on locally prioritising projects working with . . .

Steamy SF is Out of This World | Donna S. Frelick (The Gambia)

Jun 16 2023

Donna Frelick (The Gambia 1976-78) was a voracious reader growing up—she loved Charles Dickens and recalls checking The Swiss Family Robinson out of her local library 15 times. One of her favorite books was an installment in the Ace Doubles series, which offered two SF books in one volume. One of the stories was written by Ursula K. Le Guin, who became a favorite. (Years later at her marriage ceremony, Frelick quoted from Le Guin’s The Dispossessed.) Frelick’s interest in science fiction grew apace. Inspired by the cult favorite TV series Star Trek, which debuted when she was 13 years old, as well as Rod Serling’s fantastical anthology series The Twilight Zone and such film classics as The Day the Earth Stood Still —“I watched episodes through my fingers.” — her own writing began to boldly go where it had never gone before. What she loves about SF, she . . .