Malika and I

Malika and I are pictured at La Creche Lalla Hasna, where I worked during the summer of 1989 between school years. The Creche was a privately funded charity and day care center attached to the state orphanage, and offered extra care to children from 8 months to 3 years old. The plight of the children was quite poignant, since they were unlikely to be adopted, and the resources at the state orphanage were not sufficient to care for them properly.

During the year,I was teaching English as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the village of Outat El Haj, and coming to the big city was a marked cultural change. (Naturally, it was also cooler on the coast than in the desert.)