This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her...
This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her...
Several of my students in the village of Tougouri, Burkina Faso are "hanging out" in front of their classroom - no electricity and no water. It is an amazing feat that there are three girls in the picture as only about 10% of my students were...
Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment
I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...
In this photo, Maratou creates her dream. During the summer of 2009, I co-facilitated a girl’s camp in Komteaga, Burkina Faso. We led the participants through nutrition, sexual education, good hygiene and goal-setting programs. For many of the...
These girls were my students at the Dar Chebeb (Youth House) in Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco. I would teach them Spanish and English and help them on their french. We established weekend hours to play, learn about health and talk about what...