The young man in the middle of the picture below is Ousman Bojang, a WFP employee in the North Bank region. Ousman is a smart young man I think will go places. He is also a new father. I met his wife shortly after he was hired and when Ousman and I went on a school feeding trek together. At that point his wife was not even pregnant. But shortly after that he got the good news that he would be a dad. His was not an arranged marriage, they had met in senior secondary school and fallen in love. She went with him to his new duty station in North Bank. When we had the training of trainers he said she was getting close to delivery so when I arrived in North Bank for cluster trainings I asked him how she was. He said she was in Basse (way up country) with her family. Apparently it is traditional for the woman to go home for her first delivery. We had finished one day of training when she had the baby. She called and told him she was on her way to the hospital and 30 minutes later he was the new father of a boy. He looked very happy but there was absolutely no thought on his part of not participating in the school garden training. He finished training on Wednesday, then finished up paper work on Thursday and started his paternal leave on Friday. So send some special thoughts out to Ibrima Bojang who has joined the WFP family.
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