This photo was taken in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during an HIV/AIDS educational camp for girls. The camp, organized by 4 volunteers, brought girls from all over Burkina Faso to learn about HIV/AIDS through soccer. Many of the girls...
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...
This photo was taken in September, 2005 in Same, East Timor. My wife and I and a Portuguese language teacher helped train a group of girls who asked us for their help to get a girls soccer team together. This was an important project because the...
In Burkina Faso, my girl's soccer team practiced giving presentations on correct condom usage together before demonstrating their knowledge to the police officers of our community. As part of learning healthy living through sport, condom usage to...
Camps and clubs; Youth; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
I took this photo during the summer camp that I organized and led during the summer between my two years of service. I invited girls from my 8th and 9th grade classes to participate in a week-long camp that consisted of math and science review,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Teachers and Students; Education; Girls' education
My students and I pose for a picture during break time at my school in Azerbaijan. These students are sisters. One is in eight grade and the other is in nine grade.
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...