I traveled with a team of six pre-med students and a team of missionary doctors and nurses around the western part of Senegal which is located in the northwestern part of Africa. We put on clinics at a village, two different prisions, and at mosque for boys who beg in the streets.
This is Mike and Gareth..they were the men on our team. 
We landed in Dakar at 6AM and got to watch the sunrise at the airport. 
First time seeing the ocean!
We climbed up a hill to the top of a lighthouse and looked out over the city of Dakar which is the capital of Senegal. It was interesting to see some of the nicer places along with a lot of areas of poverty. How can the people who have money not see the poor living right next to them and not do anything about it?
We traveld to Goree Island. It looks and is a beautiful island but this is where the United States, along with many other countries received their slaves from the 15th-18th century. More than 26 million slaves were traded on this island. The boys in the water were begging for money. We were instructed not to throw money out to them but someone on the boat did and it was sad to see them fight over the money like fish fight over food
These two pictures are of the slave trading house
Our entire group including Anina and Sacre our translators
The oldest chuch in West Africa
Mangos were everywhere!
This is the delivery room in Barthimee the hospital in which Dr. Ted and Colien (our missionary hosts) helped build. 
The villages
These are some of the children that we did a relay game with. The children come from the village where Mission Inter Senegal (MIS) first started their mission/ did their outreaching to ten years ago. 
These children had never seen a camera before and thought it was cool to see themselves on our cameras
Natalie with some children
This was a typical meal in Senegal. We each would have a spoon and dig in. we tried to stay in our own little sections :)
This is one of the prisons we went to two days durng our trip and provided care for the prisoners, guards, and their families
Hedgehog in the wild
Our group outside the prison in Diourobel It was about 110 degrees this day
Me, Sherri, and Charles helping to give children check ups at the mosque 
Sarah and Natalie with one of the boys
It was awesome to see these people through God's eyes instead of my own. Many of the people we saw have so much love and joy to give yet others are lost and searching for a reason to live. Majority of the places we went no medical mission group had been to before so we opened a lot of doors for the mission organizations in Senegal. Even though we did see anyone come to Christ while we were there it was still great to know that God used us to open doors to further His Kingdom.
