Kedougou Youth Leadership Camp Pictures

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Here are some pictures from the Kedougou Youth Leadership Camp!


Playing Fish Bowl, a charades game

Teaching the tree nursery session

Campers mixing manure and dirt to fill tree sacks

Playing the human knot game

My beard is now almost as long as my face

Pancake judging; campers made pancakes together in groups of five during the cooking class

Cooking the leftover batter into mini-pancakes

Dancing after the cooking session



Erosion activity; in groups, the campers added sticks and rocks to the dirt to try and lessen the amount of erosion when the "rain" came

Erosion activity 
Baking soda and vinegar volcano during science night

Making slime during science night
Juggling during science night
Making giant bubbles during science night
Basketball

Basketball dribble-pass-shoot competition


Gender day--campers dressed up as the opposite gender and did skits

Campfire

Dancing around the campfire

My team, Les Racines 
Stretching before the soccer tournament


Teaching Eric how to make the best paper airplane ever 
Painting a mural on the wall at the Peace Corps house


Group picture after the mural painting 
Egg drop game (protect the egg with straws, paper, and tape so that it does not break when dropped from the second story of a building)


Eric dropping a protected egg 
Campers waiting to see if their egg survived


One egg survived the first round!

Four eggs did not survive the first round...

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