Story by Capt. Marian Popescu, USMC
CAMP LEMONIER, DJIBOUTI – A team of U.S. Army Soldiers improved the standard of living for children learning at a primary school in Djibouti City, Djibouti Dec. 2. While the improvements gave students a better learning environment, Camp Lemonier Soldiers benefited from the experience too.
“Visiting schools and seeing children who lack the basic necessities for life and education has really motivated me to try and make a difference however small it may be” said U.S. Army Cpl. Danielle Deal after the visit to the primary school.
Deal, a Mishawaka, Ind. native, volunteered to come to Africa to make a difference in the lives of people. She and other members of Bravo Company, 489th Civil Affairs Battalion assigned to Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa got a chance to make a difference in the lives of the school children at PK 20, a small primary school 20 kilometers west of Djibouti City.
While working at a different school in the Balbala district of Djibouti, Bravo Company was invited by a village elder of PK20 to meet the headmaster and discuss their school program. The headmaster showed the CJTF-HOA members how potable water for the children was stored in an open, rotted and cracked plastic barrel. He was concerned that the contaminated water barrel may be contributing to diarrhea among school children.
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