Explore Senegal
Welcome Explorers!
Salaam alaikum! Bonjour! These are just two of the many ways to say hello to the people you will meet in the exciting country of Senegal.
Get ready for vibrant villages that leave stars in your eyes; rainbow-colored, bustling markets; shared meals; and buoyant, pink lakes!
While visiting, you’ll learn about Karima Grant, an educator and children’s book author who lives in Dakar, Senegal. She created the first children’s museum in sub-Saharan Africa to help children learn about themselves and their communities through play.
Karima’s work and dreams will teach you a lot about compassion (a big word that means you are caring, considerate, and kind) and compassion in action! It feels good in our minds and hearts when people take the time to listen, understand, and care. Having compassion brings us together and helps connect us to ourselves and even to animals.
Be true to your heart, and you’re never alone.
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Senegal Guide
encourage Compassion
Explore This Adventure’s Theme: COMPASSION
Did you know that elephants are known for being especially caring and consoling animals? From saving swimmers in distress to helping a child to safety before an impending typhoon, elephants seem to know how important compassion is for survival.
We can learn from the big hearts of elephants and show even more compassion to humans and animals. Now, be sure to swim, fly, and jump on in to the Be Ready Explorers Senegal adventure to think even more about compassion!
Meet Karima grant
Karima Is Compassionate
Karima Grant lives in Dakar, Senegal. She believes that it’s important to give children opportunities to play and learn about the world around them. She is the founder of ImagiNation Afrika, Senegal’s first children’s museum and educational hub. Their mission is to change how children grow and learn about themselves and others.
Karima, and those with whom she works closely, use spaces throughout the community to help children connect with people and animals, and to learn new things that build on what they already know. She believes it’s important to teach children to be responsive to their environment and to think problems through while remembering and caring for everyone involved.
“A changemaker is a seed we have within [us]. If we nurture it… we have the possibility to make change, small or big. That’s what makes the world a better place.”
Three Ways To Explore Senegal
Choose Your Type Of Adventure
Adventure Kit
Each kit includes the guidebook, embroidered keychain, activities, and materials ready to be enjoyed!
Care Package
Each care package includes the adult explorer interview, activities to support the highlighted skill, and an emotion-ful surprise.
Adventure Guide + Keychain
This adventure option includes the adventure guidebook and an embroidered keychain.
Three Ways To Explore Senegal
Choose Your Type Of Adventure
Adventure Kit
Each kit includes the guidebook, embroidered keychain, activities, and materials ready to be enjoyed!
Care Package
Each care package includes the adult explorer interview, activities to support the highlighted skill, and an emotion-ful surprise.
Adventure Guide + Keychain
This adventure option includes the adventure guidebook and an embroidered keychain.
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Thank You, Mind & Heart, can help us talk with children about what it means to be kind to themselves and why it’s so important. Compassionate self-talk (being kind to our mind and heart) plays a big part.