Broguhe:

We first started visiting Broguhe in 2006 when we were at neighboring Bateguedea and we wanted to deliver some boots to another village besides Bateguedea. We (Evariste and I) hit it off with the chief, Leon Seri, instantly and we visited Broguhe again in 2007 and we'll be there again this August (2008).



Kate Montgomery, who accompanied our 2007 trip, standing with women of Broguhe outside the central meeting place where we conduct our donation ceremony.



Women in Broguhe. Left, two women talking about the quality of dried fish (to be used as a basis for a sauce). Middle, a woman demonstrates how to pound rice to remove the hulls. Right, the sewing room of the chief's main wife. She built this room in order to teach young women how to sew.



Left, two varieties of rice, the left one being "Uncle Ben." Right, rice is gathered into sheafs, then allowed to dry on the stalk.



Left, schools built by the village and not by the Ivorian government. Middle, Dale joshes with some children inside one of the school's rooms. Right, the schoolmaster, who does not work for a salary, but who lives in a house built by the village and grows and tends cocoa on the weekends to pay himself a salary.



Left, Tom and the village chief, Leon Seri, inspecting the quality of cocoa beans. Right, Tom and Dale posing with Broguhe's chief, Leon Seri.



Left, Evariste Plegnon (one of PH&F's Ivorian assistants) inspects the village well with village chief, Leon Seri. The well no longer works because its pipes are all corroded and no longer functional. Women and children are forced to walk quite a distance to retrieve water. Middle, donation of machetes to the village in August, 2008. Right, Robusta coffee beans, normally sold to Nestle to manufacture Nescafé, have been roasted and ground to make campfire coffee. It was excellent and belied the conventional wisdom that Robusta is acidic and twiggy.