I took this photo in February 2011. Each year in February there is an annual celebration of the continuation of the scouting programs worldwide. This picture was taken with the first group to attend the annual celebration in Nyeri, where Lord Baden...
Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Universities
This photo was taken during summer camp at European University--my work site. My students put on "Cinderella" with some reverse gender roles to celebrate graduations and the end of the semester.
Camps and clubs; Girls' education; Teachers and students
Grade 11 girls from Rehoboth (Namibia) High School work as a team to transport a tire and all team members across an obstacles without touching the ground. Students were attending a week-long leadership camp at Aus, Namibia. The enrichment camp...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken on our final day of a 6 day girls' empowerment camp that I planned and lead with a fellow PCV in July of 2011. Throughout this camp we discussed topics ranging from healthy relationships, to domestic violence, to journaling and...
This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
I teach three cooking classes a week with various women´s groups, and this time we made an home-made oven (horno casero) to cook stuffed peppers. This boy lives at the house in which we were cooking and usually loves to get involved with our...
camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
I took this photo during a GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) camp in Piura, Peru during February, 2010. A large component of this girls' leadership weekend was teaching about sexual education. Here, one of the girls from my town, Yocelin, practices...
This photo was taken in March 2008 in Santa Rosa, Paraguay at a regional youth leadership camp. The camp was held during one day where youth, ages 13-21 came to be empowered to become leaders. They learned skills, such as this one, which focused...
This photo was taken at Spring Camp in Taroudant. Each Volunteer was responsible for teaching two hour long English classes each day (other activities included: clubs: cooking, dance, etc., sports, cultural night, talent shows, drama,scavenger...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
Secondary school learner Patricia shows off her primary artistic tool while making hand-print t-shirts at a Camp GLOW in Graskop, South Africa on February 9, 2011. The week-long camp consisted of sessions on life skills, girls empowerment and...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This was taken during our 1st annual Camp GLOW in Rwanda. GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) is a leadership, health education and empowerment camp for young women.
PCV Kate Hulbert and I had an ambitious plan to create the next Annie Leibovitz. We...
Nine local high schools in the Tiznit province performed skits to promote SIDA awareness at the Dar Shabob (City Center). Groups of 6-10 students came up with a skit addressing different SIDA topics. Topics of the skits included: modes of...
Isabel works on the parallel bars to improve her balance during occupational therapy. Her peers cheer her on.
About 30-40 children with multiple disabilities lived at the children's section of the Julio Endara M. Hospital near Quito, Ecuador. Some...
“Peace Corps is all about trying different things because we come here and have access to grants and different ideas and we have the luxury to fail. That’s something that’s pretty unique for anyone to have,” Alyssa, a Returned Peace Corps...
This photo was taken in Andringitra, Madagascar. Two Peace Corps Volunteers, Kurt and Sonia, along with their sisters (visiting), met up with the Club Vintsy (an environment club). Kurt and Sonia did a lot of their work with Club Vintsy in...
I have a creativity club for pre-school/kindergarden-aged children where we do activities to encourage creativity, independence, and outside-the-box thinking. In Burkina Faso the education system is based largely on a system of memorization, and...
health; camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, in July 2007. The girls in the photo are participating in EcoHealth Camp, a week of activities organized by Peace Corps volunteers focused on health, AIDS, and environmental...
The photo was taken during an Information, Education, Communication (IEC) campaign the Philippines. The kids in the photo are 4th year high school students along with the Volunteer who is leading them through a a team building exercise....