On Thursday afternoon we rolled into St. Louis. It's on an island just off the coast, sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Senegal River. That helps make the temperature a bit cooler than in Dakar.
It's a beautiful town, and the first place we stopped -- after settling into our hotel -- was at a shop run by a women's collective. The women there had made colorful dresses and handbags that they sold at the shop, but the organization runs deeper than that. It's managed by a Senegalese woman who was educated in the U.S., and the collective offers classes for women in entrepreneurship, computer use, and money management.
Here are some photos of the shop and its contents.
The shop is located in what I'd call a St. Louis version of a strip mall: About six or eight shops in a row, located in a dirt courtyard off the main road. Goats were involved.
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