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As a senior in college at Graceland University, Paige Webberly was on track to her dream of becoming a doctor.
She had good grades, a double major in biology and chemistry, and a work ethic to match.
‘The toughest job, you’ll ever love’
Camas native is serving in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone
- By Danielle Frost
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August 19, 2014 12:00 am
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Life
Webberly conducts a lab practical with two of her classes after teaching them the nervous system. She is serving as a volunteer teacher in Sierra Leone.
Paige Webberly goofs off for the camera with her favorite neighborhood child, Hassan.
Several of Webberly's students share a lighthearted moment.
To develop schools in Sierra Leone, students often do much of the labor because there isn't enough funding to pay someone else. The school Webberly teachers at is working on constructing a new classroom building, which included the whole school hauling sand in buckets and rice bags up from the river, about half a mile from the school. Toward the end of the day Webberly decided to tote (the word for carrying a load on your head) her own bucket up to the school. "Students were surprised that as a teacher I was doing physical labor," she said. "Usually teachers do nothing, or just supervise."
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