UNGDS presentsDAKAR → YOUR SCREEN

Colourful Senegalese pirogues on the Atlantic shore at sunset

FROM SENEGAL, WITH LOVE

Sénégalmon amour.

The tide brings us together.

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A STORY FROM USCOLOUR · HEART · TERANGA

TERANGAUNGDS · SÉNÉGAL

OK, NOW THAT WE'RE AMONG FRIENDS…

Ah, te voilà !
Come, sit down.

C'EST CHEZ NOUS

We're UNGDS — West Africa's largest online Model UN organisation, based in Senegal.
But before the titles and the big speeches… you, how are you doing?

NEXT UP · AN ORDINARY DAY, CHEZ NOUS

Let us show youa day in Senegal.Now picture yourself here.

The street chatter. The sea breeze. Someone calling you over.
Viens — there's room for you in this picture.

Neighbours and children gathering in a sunlit Senegalese street

SENEGAL / TAKE YOUR TIME

SCÈNE I / Viens, on cause

You came to say hi?That's a whole event... here.

You only wanted to pass by. Too late ...someone asked how you are, and they actually want the answer. Everything else can wait, non ?

A cyclist passing colourful buildings in Senegal

SENEGAL / THIS IS HOME

SCÈNE II / Un peu de caractère

Tone it down?Déh, never.

The colour, and the laughter, that spill into the street… we are not lowering the volume of our joy. And honestly? Neither should you.

SENEGAL / AND YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?

SCÈNE III / On se retrouve

Okay,you're far away.

But you're here. On the other side of this screen, someone is genuinely happy to meet you. And that, is not a small thing.

NO FILTER NEEDED · SENEGAL, RIGHT NOW

Look at this place.
Regarde-moi ça.

These aren't postcards from another century. ...This is sénégal, today, in full colour. Hover to hold a moment still.

Young dancers leaping across a Dakar street — Dakar, mid-leap

View over Gorée Island's colourful houses, Dakar — Gorée, from above

Fishermen silhouetted on pirogues at sunset — River gold hour

Women in vibrant grand boubous on a Dakar street — Sunday best, any day

Pelicans and a fisherman on a Senegalese beach at sunset — The pelican committee

Surfers riding a wave on the Senegalese coast — Yes, we surf

Traditional architecture on Gorée Island — Gorée's quiet corners

Gorée Island's colourful houses rising from the water off Dakar — The island of memory

THIS IS JUST HOW WE ARE.

The door?
It's open.

Yes, yes. For you too.

Hospitality

Come in, come in! We'll squeeze.

Dalal ak jàmm — welcome, in peace. An introduction.is not needed. Tell us your first name, we start from there.

WAIT — DON'T LEAVE WITHOUT THIS.

Come as
you are.

With your accent. Your questions. Your little stage fright too.
You have nothing to prove for us to make room for you.

Alright, I'm in!

WE'RE KEEPING A SEAT FOR YOUBA BENEEN YOON / UNTIL NEXT TIME