Pagosa Springs Rotary Club
If you have not yet gotten your check to David Smith for a contribution to the Donor Advised Fund, the Polio Plus Fund or the Rotary Foundation....Get your checks ready and bring them to the Holiday Party THIS THURSDAY!!! See either David Smith or Larry McClintock so that these funds can be contributed - Time is running out......
Some of our members have asked about the possibility of visiting Senegal during one of our visits when we hold a Science Teacher Training Workshop. Information on how such a visit might take place follows.
Let me know (Ph 264 6647) if you are interested in joining. If there is enough interest, I will organize a meeting to discuss more details.
Dates: End of Feb or early Mar
Duration: ~2 weeks
Airfare and in-country expenses: ~$2500
Day 1: Fly from Albuquerque
Day 2: Arrive in Dakar, Senegal. DS to meet you at the airport and spend the night in the area
Day 3: Travel by local transport north to Saint Louis (6-8 hrs)
Days 4-6: Saint Louis sight-seeing and visiting English classes in local high schools. Leave English books at the schools to start a small English library. Visit with local Rotarians. Participate in Science Day.
Day 7: Travel by car inland along the Senegal River to town of Podor. Observe irrigation and agriculture. Spend the night in a great little hotel.
Day 8: Visit sights around Podor and spend a second night there.
Day 9: Continue traveling along the Senegal River to the city of Malam. Spend the night there.
Day 10: Travel west to city of Linguere. Visit the high school and look at interesting paintings on the walls. Leave English books. Linguere is a dusty, remote town. Spend night in Linguere.
Day 11: Drive SE to city of Tuba, where we will visit the great Mosque of Tuba. Spend the night in this famous religious city and learn about the Sufi form of Islam.
Day 12: Drive to Dakar. Spend the night.
Day 13: Sight-seeing in Dakar. Perhaps a visit to Gori Island.
Day 14: Fly to Albuquerque.