SNRAS Master’s International student Samantha Straus is nearing the two-year mark of her Peace Corps service in The Gambia. She recently sent photographs to show what life is like for her in Africa.
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| Samantha Straus with Gambian local learning how to test water quality in honey. They used a refractometer calibrated for honey. |
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| Constructing beekeeping equipment. |
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| Samantha Straus with her host mother, Dado, at Kaur school for a garden training. |
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| Samantha Straus with village children. The boy with his hand on his heart, Musa, helps haul water for Straus. |
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| Samantha Straus works alongside friends during a beekeeping workshop, preparing to hang the Kenya Top Bar. |
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| Straus and her host sister paint a hand washing mural at the school kitchen to encourage students to wash hands before eating. |
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The SNRAS Master’s International program allows graduate students to earn a master’s degree in natural resources management while serving in the Peace Corps. Straus writes about her time in The Gambia in her blog, Banto Faros.
