School's in Session!

This was one of the classrooms at the Omendjadi High School were I taught in 1984 and 85. During a heavy rainstorm in the wet season, one of the mudbrick walls melted away. As a Peace Corps volunteer, I had gone back for a second year of teaching, only to find that the veterinary nurse section had been eliminated by the state.

I never found out how the school resolved the repair of the classroom because I left Omendjadi to continue as a volunteer on monkeypox research. Knowing the poverty of the region, I suspect that classes were held as usual in the room for a long time until they found a solution.

Photo by D. Messinger