Andrea Hough, Charles Chopak. Norman, Oklahoma. The ponds of the Senegal-bound trainees were clustered together, so we began working together.

Andrea Hough, Charles Chopak, Sean Mackey. Norman, Oklahoma

Norman, Oklahoma. There were 32 ponds. This one, A3, was mine.

Norman, Oklahoma.

Norman, Oklahoma.

Norman, Oklahoma. Doc was a zoology professor at the University of Oklahoma, and directed the training program. Doug was a returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Zaire, and one of our trainers.

Norman, Oklahoma. Andrea Hough. We raised tilapia in OK because we were going to raise tilapia in Senegal, where it's an indigenous species.

Thies, Senegal. Dick Celeste, appointed by Jimmy Carter, directed the Peace Corps from 1979-81. (He was replaced by Loret Ruppe in early 1981.)

CSS (Compagnie Sucriere Senegalaise) irrigation canal, 17 km. The canal extends from Richard Toll to Lac de Ger. It was built when salt water intrusion up the Senegal River during the dry season threatened to ruin the sugar cane fields in RT.

This is the pumping station by Lac de Ger.

Richard Toll, Senegal. We had monthly meetings with Eaux et Forêts staff at this former French colonial chateau on the outskirts of Richard Toll.

Freshly dug, but still a work in progress.

Mouride cemetery beside the mosquee.

Mosquee of Cheik Amadou Bamba, founder of the Mouride brotherhood (a Sufi order of Islam). He also preached non-violent resistance to French colonialism, a crime for which he spent years in prison.

Touba Toul and the surrounding landscape from a minaret in the mosquee.