The Fulani, or Peuhl, live in villlages and farms of northern and Central Togo. These young women are sedentary, have huts, grow crops, and could potentially attend school whereas other Fulani are completely nomadic. They are holding twin dolls....
On a monthly basis, the community health Volunteers who worked at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) would conduct baby weighings using the Salter scale in the photo. We would weigh the children aged 5 and under. This is part of routine growth...
On a monthly basis, the community health Volunteers who worked at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) would conduct baby weighings using the salter scale in the photo. We would weigh the children aged 5 and under. This is part of routine growth...
Henou (Patrice) is a community health Volunteer. On a monthly basis, weather permitting (in other words, it wasn't raining), we would bike to the villages & farms surrounding Affem Kabye and weigh the children aged 5 and under. This is part of...
I took this photo at the naming ceremony of a baby born to one of the women I worked with in improving pre-natal health practices in the fall of 2007. The ceremony occurred 7 days after the birth of the baby which is the tradition in this village...
Melissa Kadzik is weighing a baby at a monthly baby weighing and education session for mothers in Toweta Benin. January 2008. Babies are weighed hanging from the scale. Most babies were more scared of the white girl then hanging from the scale.
Maternal and child health; Health; Terrain; Host community
I took this picture in my site, Santa Barbara, Huehuetenango, which is a rural Mayan community in the western highlands of Guatemala Its a picture of a nurse I worked with getting ready to vaccinate a baby.
November 29, 2010. A mother holds tight as her baby receives an MMR vaccination during a campaign. You can see the nurse's hands. Many children came to the campaign with incomplete vaccination records.
July 21 2008. This photo was taken just after I finished a health talk at the "casa materna" in the town of Los Chiles, Rio San Juan. A casa materna or "community-based birthing home" is a house maintained by the Ministry of Health or another...
Koutiala Volunteers in Mali, West Africa, paint a mural depicting maternal health and nutrition at the Women's and Children's Hospital. This mural was done a few days before Mali Volunteers were evacuated from the country due to the coup d'etat and...