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I have been taking a sustainable development class at an non-government organization called CRESP. At CRESP we had two weeks of lectures and then we split up into groups to work on projects. My group consisted of four people another American and two Senegalese students. Our group interviewed twelve maids who work in Yoff and are enrolled in a French literacy program at CRESP. We attempted to find out why they came to Dakar to work, if they’ve been to school, if they ever had housing or money troubles, if they had advice for girls in their position, etc. We transcribed the information we received into a learn-how-to-read book for them to use in their class. We tried to incorporate as much as they told us into their book. The book was finished last week and we will do a presentation on it this week. It was a very wholesome and exciting project.