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Field Study & Volunteering
Volunteer and field
study components can be arranged for
participants who would like to stay on in the country after the
Crossing
Cultures Senegal program ends in order to study or work with one of the
groups visited. This could be in areas such as dance, folklore, women's
issues, theater, contemporary medicine, traditional medicine, family
planning, public health, legal aid, literacy, small business
development, cooperatives, construction, computer technology, language,
etc.
Examples of ID
Participants' Volunteer
and Field Study Activities
- One participant
extended for five months to do a field study in the Mandinka
language and traditional dance, performing a dance solo for an audience
of about five hundred. She lived with a Senegalese family,
studying Mandinka language, culture and dance in a one-on-one setting
with a literacy organization. Her university accepted her work as a
semester abroad; and she wrote her senior thesis on the causative
verb in Mandinka, returning for six weeks the following year to add to
her research.
- One stayed on for two
months to study French with a private tutor.
- One extended to study Senegalese dance and to built a balafon, one of the instruments of Senegal, under the tutelage of a master musician.
- One extended to learn
the Sabar, a traditional drum indigenous to Senegal.
- Two returned to
attend university in Dakar.
- One stayed to research her Master's thesis in journalism.
- A high school teacher developed a program at her school to support a school library in Senegal with books and computer materials.
- Two participants
taught computer skills in a middle school.
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