Two Peace Corps volunteers and some old tires sparked a word-of-mouth wave of DIY playgrounds in North Africa.
By Elizabeth Moreno
Bouarfa, Morocco was not what Josh Jentzsch had in mind when he signed up for the Peace Corps. “It’s cold,” he told me over a crackling Skype connection. Dry, barren, empty, and rural. “It kind of looks like Mars.”
Throughout orientation he heard tales from experienced volunteers who had organized youth camps, lead workshops, facilitated trainings, and spearheaded transformational development projects. Anything seemed possible. And then Josh left orientation in the capital and landed in Bouarfa.