Explore stories of service, connection, and transformation directly from CorpsAfrica Volunteers across the continent.
Written by CorpsAfrica/Maroc Volunteer Ms. Hafssa Ait Tabamoute People on my site “Tiouchi” had a very busy and outstanding summer time. It was a very...
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Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga Before joining CorpsAfrica, I always had several questions in my mind about the prevalence of poverty in Malawi....
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Usually (villagers) know exactly what the (stranger) wants to hear them say, and they say it in the...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I think we all want to make a difference somehow, we all want to be remembered for something...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu Never would I have thought that I would hike the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, but thanks to...
Written by CorpsAfrica Volunteers Ms. Ndeye Awa Gueye (Senegal), Mr. Lahcen Chanchaf (Morocco), and Mr. Emas Potolani (Malawi) Hello Dear Readers, This is our first...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira Mango season has just begun all over Malawi and it couldn’t have come at a better time. My...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Boubacar Diallo From Friday, September 16 to Sunday 18, the village youth grouped as part of the l’Association Socio-culturelle pour...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga Samuel Johnson once said, “Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” -Ibn Battuta As I insinuated in...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Emas Potolani “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I have always been slim and tiny. I don’t remember at any point in my life weighing much...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “We are not here to take part. We are here to take over” -Conor McGregor I am writing...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira During Pre-service training, we had a permaculture expert come and talk to us about perma-gardening, and with the...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu I can’t say am overwhelmed but I am proud of my community. When I first had the idea...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela As a Volunteer, we are ‘armed’ with some tools that help us work and fully integrate into our...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese A few months into my service, I started feeling a bit lonely and I wanted a puppy. So...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Mama Diop A locality, whatever its nature, its ground, and its resources, needs all its living forces to develop. In...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga For the past two weeks, I have been going to bed or waking up to the sound of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana This month I decided to take some days off from my site, take that vacation, get some of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu So now that Corps Africa mid-service training and Age Africa scholars retreat is over, I sat down and...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Assiatu Pongolani Clearly, for those who follow me here, almost every post in the past few months of blogging has...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do” – Johann Wolfgang Von...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Aissatu Pongolani While at our Pre-Service Training as a CorpsAfrica Trainee to become a Volunteer, we had this wonderful, exciting,...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Isabel Mandiwa Every child has the right to education we say. But how many kids have access to that education...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Emas Potolani In my previous post, I shared more about women from my community, Chitete. And I tried to give...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Ms. Gnagna Dabo In our last blog, I mentioned the existence of the many resources at my site. Among these resources...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira From 18-22 July, I was out of my site attending Age Africa’s 6th annual girls’ retreat. The theme...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela “Who would be in charge of the project if you were to leave it, or not be available,”...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese I can’t believe we’re already halfway through our service!!! How time flies when you’re having *a great time*…....
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Amadou Alpha Ba Nelson Mandela Day is an annual international day in honor of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Dinisse Sylva CorpsAfrica/Senegal,Mbaldo,mbaldo , mbédé diam ! mbédé diam ! diam soom ? diam soom kay ! mbalém djiré diam...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga The week starting on the 25th of July marked another exciting week in my CorpsAfrica journey. This was...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I think 2015 is probably the year I read the most, analyzed a lot of research papers, and...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga Reposted from Tobiyasi in Chiradzulu “What do people do when they appear not to be doing something?” –...
