Update: April 2000

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Journal"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Memories Impressions of Futa Toro"><U><B>Previous Page</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>Futa Toro: Memories from the Desert's Edge </B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Futa Toro: Memories from the Deserts Edg"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Memories Impressions of Futa Toro"><U>Memories & Impressions of Futa Toro</U></A>   |   <B>Update: April 2000</B>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Journal"><U>Photo Journal</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Futa Toro: Web Resources"><U>Futa Toro: Web Resources</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="US Peace Corps"><U>US Peace Corps</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guest Book"><U>Guest Book</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>Update: April 2000</I></div> <div> On April 12, 2000, I received the following wonderful letter from Monsieur Mamadou Diallo, the director of the elementary school in Thioubalel.  They had gotten my most recent package!  It had taken approximately 6 months, but it had arrived!  Please look at the beautiful photo he sent with the letter</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="1012" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1068 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="09213100.gif" border=0 width="787" height="1040" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 420 WIDTH="205"><div> Wow!  the caption on the back of this photo says that the school is up to 230 students!  Here are a sampling of the kids, with the teachers standing in back, holding some of the supplies we sent from Massachusetts.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0946c9e0.gif" border=0 width="620" height="414" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>