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    • Maternal Health

    • Maternal Health

    • Maternal and child health; Secondary projects

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
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    • Infant Health

    • Infant Health

    • Maternal and child health; Secondary projects

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
    • Agency Photos
    • Child Health

    • Child Health

    • Maternal and child health; Secondary projects

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she meausre the height of a child at the clinic.
    • Agency Photos
    • Infant Health

    • Infant Health

    • Maternal and child health; Secondary projects

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
    • Agency Photos
    • Director of the Mother's Club

    • Director of the Mother's Club

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Maternal and child health

    • A prominent figure of the town of Tigualo, this woman is the director of the mothers’ club and owner of the only store in the town.
    • Agency Photos
    • Community Development Volunteer

    • Community Development Volunteer

    • Knight Foundation; Maternal and child health; Health; Education

    • This Volunteer has been serving as a community development Volunteer in Cameroon since June of 1976. She is responsible for supervising and training female Cameroonians to organize and run women and children’s groups. They learn hygiene,...
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    • Community Development Volunteer

    • Community Development Volunteer

    • Knight Foundation; Maternal and child health; Health; Education

    • This Volunteer has been serving as a community development Volunteer in Cameroon since June of 1976. She is responsible for supervising and training female Cameroonians to organize and run women and children’s groups. They learn hygiene,...
    • Agency Photos
    • Traditional Cooking

    • Traditional Cooking

    • Knight Foundation; Maternal and child health; Health; Education

    • Hausa women preparing food in traditional manner and advises them on improved nutrition using food and other ingredients available to them.
    • Agency Photos
    • Child Care

    • Child Care

    • Medicine; Nurses; Maternal and child health

    • The Peace Corps staff nurse provides medical support to Volunteers in her region of Sierra Leone. Here she discusses child care with another Volunteer and local mothers. 1968
    • Agency Photos
    • Maternal Child Health Clinics

    • Maternal Child Health Clinics

    • Maternal and child health

    • This Volunteer supervises five maternal child health clinics in the western, southern and eastern provinces of Bo. She visits the clinics primarily to encourage maternal-child health nutrition programs.
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    • Maternal and Child Care Class

    • Maternal and Child Care Class

    • Maternal and child health

    • This Volunteer uses pictures she drew and cut out to explain the reasons for “kwashiorkor,” malnutrition in young children, to village women in the town of Bumpe, near Bo, Sierra Leone. She conducts her maternal and child care class, where she...
    • Agency Photos
    • Baby Girl Gets A Bath

    • Baby Girl Gets A Bath

    • Maternal and child health; Water and sanitation

    • I took this picture of my friend Mary giving her baby, Dana (whom she named after me) a bath. This picture was taken in 2006 in the compound of the apartment building where I lived in Old Tafo, Ghana.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Way of Life

    • Way of Life

    • Maternal and child health

    • Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia 2009 A woman carries a baby on her back while her brother looks on.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Under 5 Clinic

    • Under 5 Clinic

    • Maternal and child health

    • While serving in Zambia, I worked very closely with my clinic. Every friday I would spend all day weighing children under 5, so that the clinic could chart health growth and stop malnutrition.
    • Volunteer Photos

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