Muhammed and me

Muhammed and I, after tea, with one of his sisters taking the photo.

February 11th 2006
A kid named Muhammad Ould Brahim has been hanging around me of late, and against my better judgment, I have let him. In Mauritania, children are raised much differently than in the states. It is not seemly for a child in Mauritania to address an adult, and adults who encourage this by responding to them are encouraging bad behavior. However, Muhammad has a history of seeing me on the street, g ... read more

Africa » Mauritania

Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. ... ... read more

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Tyler Cummings-Bond

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I was born in Palos Verdes, CA in 1982. I grew up in Gig Harbor, WA, where I graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 2001. I graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematical sciences in 2005. I worked for a month and a half as an intern at Metagenics in Gig Harbor, WA, before departing for Peace Corps service in July, 2005. I am currently a Peace Corps Volunteer serving in Mauritania, West Africa. I specialize in Information and communication technology, as a subset of small business development in a city called Atar, with about 25,0... full info

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