My values and perspective on life are being challenged everyday. After seven years in Canada, I now live in Burkina Faso. In my blog I try to give you a sense of how my perceptions are changing, with the hope that it will open horizons and debates. I hope you enjoy it. Lessons learned on killing a tarantula. As I was lifting .

Tuesday, August 28, 2007.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007. I went to Salaga where there was a major slave market, half-way down the country. Here slaves were bathed, greased in shea butter, and given food to make them look large and healthy. They were tied to the large trees there in chains until the market day, and they would p.

Tyler Algeo is walking the dusty roads of Zambia, helping the Ministry of Agriculture mobilizing communities to maintain earth dams on behalf of Engineers Without Borders Canada. Tuesday, August 7, 2007. Monday, July 30, 2007. This one is for my Mother.

I am a recent Engineering graduate from the University of British Columbia. I was born and raised in Vancouver, but now live in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana. I am working for Engineers Without Borders Canada in partnership with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Together we are developing an extension program that will help farmers bring their farming from a subsistence level to a fully functioning business. One of the biggest .