Lyn Dombois visited the Kamyaak eco village from August 14 to 17, 2024. After living for several years in the land of teranga, he now lives in London. This stay allowed him to reconnect with his adopted country and discover new facets of Senegal. Testimony.
At 21, Lyn Dombois is a student at the London School of Economics, after having completed all her schooling in Dakar. Passing through Senegal to see his family, still based in Dakar, he was able to spend a few days in Kamyaak.
“I arrived in Kamyaak very early in the morning. As soon as we arrived, we worked in the fields. We tried to remove all the weeds that accumulate during the winter. It’s physical work that is done only once a year,” says the young man.
After a very physical first morning, he was able to visit the fields, meet the horse Rijal and finally return to his hut and sleep. “That night, my first night in Kamyaak, I slept like a baby. When I woke up, I heard the birds singing, there are a lot of them in Kamyaak. I understood that Kamyaak is a paradise”.
“Kamyaak is part of my heart”
After her stay of several days, Lyn Dombois remembers several highlights of life in Kamyaak. Won over by this immersion, the young man assures that “it’s difficult to choose your best memory” of the ecovillage. “My whole stay is a very good memory, Kamyaak is part of my heart. Sokhna Aby cooks very well, we are lucky to eat a lot of millet semolina, produced right here in the village. The local food is very well prepared,” assures the young man.
According to Lyn Dombois, “Kamyaak embodies community life, living together. We must support each other, support each other and above all work together. Because the work never stops at Kamyaak. There is a dream vision of the future that Sahad Sarr speaks of with great poetry.”
Some recommendations
Although he really enjoyed his stay, Lyn Dombois recognizes that he was not well enough equipped to fully enjoy the fields. He had to face certain realities of life in the village. “I recommend that everyone come equipped with socks against mosquitoes and real shoes. I live in Dakar, I was used to urban life, I had forgotten that to do the work well in the fields, you need good shoes.”
In any case, he hopes to return in some time to the village founded by Sahad Sarr. “It was my first stay in Kamyaak, but certainly not the last. I had incredible experiences there”, he concludes.
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