today we went aroudn the Baie de Hann. it was really beautiful and really sad. the first part that we saw was really pretty but it was clean cuz the sand is raked of garbage everyday. there were beautiful (expensive) houses in that neighborhood. but the next part we went to we had to walk past a canal of nearly stagnant bubbling (not in a good way) black water slash sludge that flowed right into the ocean. it smelled horrible. we walked down and talked to a women who was one worker of a large government funded clean up project. the workers were cleaning up the solid waste and sending it to a dump in dakar. however, they were still not doing anything for the liquid pollution flowing in and making the water black. even worse, nothing is being done about the canal, which means that the clean up project will be continuing indefinitely. at another stop at the bay we saw a group of children swimming in the water, just past where a dead goat was washing up...

it was so sad to see that this place that is sobeautiful is just being destroyed. it was sad to see that the government was putting money into the clean up but not into prevention of the problem. it was sad to se the people wanting to have the area clean but not having a garbage removal or sewage system infrasructure in their city. senegal has only been independent for 50 years but is developing so fast. i wish there was someone, some funding, that would help it develop in a sustainable way, instead of a way that uses America as a model.