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    • Sustainability

    • Sustainability

    • Life skills; Technology

    • This photo was taken at one of my sewing workshops in Fiji, South Pacific. I teach sewing skills that include repairing and maintaining sewing machines. My goal is that the participants know how to fix their only machines. In this photo- this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kickin' it with Aissa...

    • Kickin' it with Aissa...

    • Life skills; Crafts; Business development

    • This photo of Aissa (one of the tailors I work with at site), Saphira (Aissa's daughter), and me was taken in Aissa's workshop about five months into our friendship. Aissa is seriously one of most motivated individuals I have met since being here...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Maratou's Dream

    • Maratou's Dream

    • Life skills; Girls' education; Camps and clubs

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning Life Skills

    • Learning Life Skills

    • teachers and students; education

    • A first grade student receives instruction from Kyle Greufe, a Rural Community Development volunteer in Costa Rica, on the class activity.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laundry Time

    • Laundry Time

    • Life skills

    • Taken in 1990. I worked as a nurse on the island of Antigua, West Indies. I handwashed my white uniforms by first soaking them in soapy bleach water in a 5-gallon bucket overnight before scrubbing them by hand, then placing them in another...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills

    • I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Spinning Threads

    • Spinning Threads

    • Children; Life skills

    • Spinning the thread is one of the many steps in the process of making corte, the traditional wrap worn by indigenous women of Guatemala. Kids of families start working at a young age in order to help the family in their overall attempt to survive...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Spinning Thread

    • Spinning Thread

    • Children; Life skills

    • Spinning threads is a necessary task for families that make corte, the traditional wrap worn by Indigenous women of Guatemala. This photo was taken in fall 2011, however, this process is done year around since corte is made daily by thousands of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bathing

    • Bathing

    • Life skills; Housing

    • Everything changes when living in a foreign country, even how one bathes! Using firewood to heat up water, and finding a big bucket for bathing has become a normal way of living during my time here in the highlands of Guatemala. This photo was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sustainability

    • Sustainability

    • Life skills; Technology

    • I took this photo-during one of my sewing workshops in Nagado, Fiji in January, 2011. The most important part of the workshop is to show the villagers how to repair their own machines. This elderly woman is repairing her own sewing machine. Ana,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • No Electricity...No Worries

    • No Electricity...No Worries

    • Life skills; Technology

    • This photo was taken in the Fijian village of Nagado during my sewing workshop. I am teaching this mother and daughter how to fix their beautiful old sewing machine. March 24, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sewing Curtains

    • Sewing Curtains

    • Life skills; Host families

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, home life sewing curtains with her host mom for her new house.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Back-Handed Excessive Force Technique

    • Back-Handed Excessive Force Technique

    • Health; Youth Development; Life Skills

    • Learning to brush your teeth can be a fun activity especially when you have a cool new toothbrush to do it with. We received donations of about 50 new toothbrushes and some toothpaste. So, I decided it would be a great opportunity to teach the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Life Skills

    • Life Skills

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Youth; Education

    • This is a photo of a class doing life skills at my school attachment. The principal and I worked together to get the classes started.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PC Tuvalu National Development Plan

    • PC Tuvalu National Development Plan

    • Education; Life skills; Site development; Training

    • National Development Plan training workshop coordinated by Save the Children Federation (SCF) in collaboration with Volunteers, Nukulaelae atoll, March 1982. SCF and PC were directly involved in the preparation of Tuvalu's 1982 National...
    • Volunteer Photos

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