I just got back from a week as camp counselor. The camp was 5 days and there were around 35 boy participants. Most had recieved a middle school education before quiting school to learn a trade (such as car mecanic, carpenter, etc).
The camp teaches skills such as working together in a group, good communication, preventing child traficing and other skills. Plus there is time for fun. I taught a session on rape and sexual harassment.
The boys also had to wear a pregnancy apron at times and strapa larger tuber to their back as if it were a baby. This gavethem empathy for the first time for women’s work. Men here are in the habit of considering women’s work easy and that women are just lazy.
It was a very good camp and it was good to see the boys considering some new things and reflecting on things they had always just taken for granted.
After 10 years as a techie in the United States, Rebecca Hunt joined the
Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa. She taught computer skills and
business skills in a medium sized city. After 2 years in Togo, she
moved to Accra, Ghana to work in a internet and mobile telephone
startup.
