FOOD

I just wanted to add a short post, bc a lot of people have wrote what is good to send, and that is food!! I will probably have my villages market as my main source of food, and for every meal here in Niger, it is some kind of combination of tomato paste, peanut oil, leaves (yeah, leaves), peanut butter, and onion. What variety!!! so anything you could send to help me fix food would be great...Im nervous i am heading out to my site this week and will be cooking for myself for the first time, i dont know what Im going to do!! haha. Peace Corps provides a stove top gas stove. So say a little prayer for me this week!!

~any kind of packaged meat is as good as gold here, like tuna, chicken, spam (go on and laugh) etc
~Also good are dried fruits and dried meats
~anything you can just add water to, like grits packets or those flavored oatmeal packets
~spices or anything you can add to food to make it taste good
~soup packets you just add water to
~candies
~Crystal light



Today we went to the national hospital in Niamey and they gave us a presentation on fistula, something that affects lots of young mothers in the 3rd world...it is quite sad, i saw it on oprah sometime this year, she did a program on it down in kenya i think. but anyway, we got to meet about 100 women who were in town for the next few weeks to get the operation, and learned about what we could do out in our villages to prevent it from happening. tomorrow we are headed out to our sites!! apparently since it is rainy season, a lot of the roads out east are flooded so we should get there, as the nigeriens say ``Inshallah'' (godwilling)

Hope everyone has a great week!! love Katie