Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-098
Benedicte Naudin served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 2003 to 2005 on an agriculture extension project. She also served in Peace Corps Response in Rwanda in 2018 as an English education volunteer. Naudin was already proficient in French before applying to the Peace Corps. In Senegal, she focused her worked with agricultural and health projects within her village and the region. Her major accomplishment was a tree grafting project and seeing how it was able to positively influence change in someone's life. She was able to extend to work in a successful poultry project that brought 200 chicks to her village. She enjoyed being able to explore Senegal and meet the local people. In Rwanda, the work was more intense. Naudin taught English to 700 students in the local school and also had secondary English projects. She is proud of her work with the outing club, where she took students on long hikes on the weekend to discuss anything they wanted to, all in English. Interviewed and recorded by Jeff Liu, June 22, 2019. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).