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    • Fete Pentru Viitor (Girls for the Future)

    • Fete Pentru Viitor (Girls for the Future)

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • The picture shows some members of the Roma Girls Club "Fete Pentru Viitor" (Girls for the Future) during one of their life skills' training days (GAD PC Romania funded) together with two local volunteers teaching them a variety of crafts like...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fighting over Fish

    • Fighting over Fish

    • Environment; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Indigenous Women's Ascent Volcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador

    • First Indigenous Women's Ascent Volcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women's movement

    • EMPOWERMENT, LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH THE ANDEAN WOMEN’S MOUNTAINEERING MOVEMENT In our “progressive” modern world, women continue to be discouraged from pursuing many of their hopes and dreams, especially in the developing...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Future Women's Cooperative Leader

    • Future Women's Cooperative Leader

    • children; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken roughly in February 2011. My husband and I work with a mostly women's apple cooperative in a nearby town in the Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda de Guanajuato (central Mexico). We are working with them to develop business...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gender Stereotypes

    • Gender Stereotypes

    • Camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken on July 26th, 2010 at a GLOW camp that took place in Mohammedia, Morocco. This is the first session of the camp's curriculum, and these teens are brainstorming and taking notes about gender stereotypes and the differences...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls' Summer Math and Leadership Camp

    • Girls' Summer Math and Leadership Camp

    • 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,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • High Atlas Mountain Community Meeting

    • High Atlas Mountain Community Meeting

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • My colleague, Nabila, facilitated a meeting of the women in a mountain village to discuss and prioritize their needs. Here they are doing pairwise ranking. This is part of the training program I helped the High Atlas Foundation to develop for rural...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning to Make Carpets

    • Learning to Make Carpets

    • Artisans; Crafts; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • A friend took this photo of me during training in 2007 in Godkepe, Turkmenistan, at a women's carpet-making "factory," a collective warehouse where women came together to weave large carpets. The knot-making was not complicated, but time consuming,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lessons

    • Lessons

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making mosquito repellant

    • Making mosquito repellant

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Managing Women's Savings Groups

    • Managing Women's Savings Groups

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo is of a fellow PCV, Jessica Warning, working with the President our women’s savings group while the Secretary looks on. The women of the Mbideng neighborhood in Ngaoundere, Cameroon come together once a week to save the equivalent of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Marche Maroc Sustainability Meeting

    • Marche Maroc Sustainability Meeting

    • artisans; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Volunteers lead a meeting on 'how to maintain direct access to markets' for artisans attending Marche Maroc Essaouira, a national craft fair organized by Peace Corps Volunteers in the Small Business Development sector in Morocco
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mother and Daughter

    • Mother and Daughter

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Keitu had twins but her son died. We found out later that her daughter has developmental delays. This picture was taken in between these events.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mujeres Poderosas

    • Mujeres Poderosas

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development

    • This photo that I took in January, 2011, shows young teenage girls from the Andes mountains in Shilla, Peru on their first day of the club Mujeres Poderosas (Powerful Women) in which they participated in a 6 week workshop where we talked about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • On Our Way to Victory

    • On Our Way to Victory

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); sports

    • In the back of a pickup truck riding to Madolenihmw Women's Day with the rest of my team. Our captain holds our banner aloft.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Over she goes!

    • Over she goes!

    • camps and clubs; sports; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • They said she couldn't do it in a mulafa. This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, during EcoHealth Camp 2007; one week in July where 2 girls from each Peace Corps village and their chaperones came together for sports,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PACA Tools at Work

    • PACA Tools at Work

    • artisans; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken as we completed PACA Tools during CBT, in Ait Hamza, Morocco, November 2010. Here you can see the women of Cooperative Atma, a weaving cooperative, drawing their community map.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Powerful Talks to Make Girls Powerful

    • Powerful Talks to Make Girls Powerful

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken in June 2011 in Tanzania during our Girls Empowerment Conference. There were 68 girls from across the region that participated in learning about HIV/AIDS, health education, self-defense, environment, and career opportunities. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Fish

    • Preparing the Fish

    • Environment; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women in Peace Corps

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos

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