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Senegal

Early in September, 2003, I visited Senegal, a country at Northern West in Africa, as a reporter of MRT TV. The capital city, Dakar, is famous as the goal of “Paris Dakar Rally”. The program was to transmit the activities of 2 young men came from Miyazaki Pref., who were members of Youth Overseas Cooperative Team of JICA to undertake task of teaching rice plant and vegetable cultivation at the farm village in Senegal.
 The people in the village, where they had activities, are earning their living by farming and fishing, entrusted the hope to harvest with the great efforts and every means, in spite of the natural environment such as hard scorching sun and lack of rain. Sometime I felt fascinated by the care-freeness exploded the Senegal women. The charm seems similar to the bigheartedness feeling on the women of farm village in Japan.
 The people who live with the nature know themselves the limit of their own power. That is why they are so humble to all things in the cosmos, such as family, people in the region, livestock and plants that support oneself who exist as core.