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    • Video workshop

    • Video workshop

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

    • This photo was taken during a participatory video training session at the Navua Rural Women's Telecentre Group in Fiji. The women's group wanted to create a promotional DVD that showcased who they were as an organisation. The women all received...
    • 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
    • A Bibi in Full Attention

    • A Bibi in Full Attention

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

    • This picture was taken in December 2010 in Tanzania. The woman in the picture was listening to a presentation about her chicken farm that was for the benefit of Peace Corps Volunteers who would potentially begin chicken projects in their own...
    • 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
    • Soy Farming Group in Meri, Cameroon

    • Soy Farming Group in Meri, Cameroon

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

    • While serving in the village Meri, in the extreme north region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in village. To pass the time while we worked, they would teach me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working in the soy field.

    • Working in the soy field.

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

    • While serving in the village of Meri, in the extreme north region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in the village. To pass the time while we worked, they would...
    • 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
    • Teaching The Mudawana

    • Teaching The Mudawana

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Teachers and students

    • Victoria, a Volunteer in Morocco from 2004-06, teaching the Mudawana (New Law on Women's Rights) in Tinjdad, Morocco.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Woman's Association

    • Woman's Association

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

    • Some woman attending a workshop in Kaala Saraghna, posing in front of 'Hotel Kaala' before lunch, Association Amal Developement, July.
    • 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
    • Chicas Poderosas

    • Chicas Poderosas

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

    • I took this photo at a sleep over with the graduating Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Girls) group that I started in my town, Nueva Esperanza de Cano Negro, Los Chiles, Alajuela, Costa Rica. After two months the girls had completed a workbook, service...
    • 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
    • Teaching Women the Internet

    • Teaching Women the Internet

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

    • During April 2011, I organized ICT classes for members of my women’s group. First-time computer users, the Cameroonian women learnt how to use the internet and set-up e-mail accounts. It was a great income generating activity for the cyber...
    • 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
    • A Moment of Grace

    • A Moment of Grace

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

    • 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 at 5:00am; asked...
    • 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
    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This is a photo of our group of girls in Chalkar, Kazakhstan. This Camp GLOW was the fourth of four Camp GLOWs that took place throughout Kazakhstan in the summer of 2011. There were 30 participants at the 5 day/6 night sleepaway camp. It was an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Proud to be a Woman

    • Proud to be a Woman

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

    • Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girl's empowerment. Here, we celebrated International Women's Day by discussing what our roles are as women today, successful and significant women...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Secondary school learner Patricia shows off her primary artistic tool while making hand-print t-shirts at a Camp GLOW in Graskop, South Africa on February 9, 2011. The week-long camp consisted of sessions on life skills, girls empowerment and...
    • 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

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