I felt the heat before I saw Ida’s smiling face… The heat lay like a blanket, draped over the rural setting that encircled me, including goats, chickens, wooden animal pens, mud-walled compounds, toiling farmers, and stooped agricultural workers. Ida wore a bright yellow, “Volunteers Engaged in Gender-Sensitive Technical Solutions” (VETS) program t-shirt, a lively headwrap, …