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    • Making Earrings

    • Making Earrings
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    • A Volunteer is teaching Mozambican female youth the art of making earrings out of local resources at the annual REDES conference. The REDES program (Rapargas Em Desenvolvimento E Saude - Girls in Development and Health) was started by Mozambique...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women from Timbi-Tounni

    • Women from Timbi-Tounni
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    • When I served as an Education Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea (West Africa), I met strong women, women with the ability of inspiring happiness despite their hard lives. They are in charge of the entire household, which includes exhausting tasks...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Senegal Goodbye Party

    • Senegal Goodbye Party
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    • This photo was taken in September 1992 in Popenguine, Senegal. The party was hosted by the Popenguine Women's Group. The photo is taken in the open air environmental education center that was funded by the SPA grant that I applied for during my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vinegarville

    • Vinegarville
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    • This is a picture of some of the 25 women who are learning to to make vinegar, wine vinegar, and herb-infused vinegar. The man in the picture is the agricultural agent who is teaching them. They come every week from all over the valley. They hope...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls Rural Basketball League

    • Girls Rural Basketball League
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    • This photo was taken in April 2011 in Guatemala. As an outlet and self-esteem builder, I started a basketball league for teenage girls from surrounding areas. This picture shows some of the girls wearing their newly donated jerseys from a family...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • I Am

    • I Am
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    • This photo was taken in beautiful Belize in spring 2011. My sister is the girl in the photo. She is a strong girl with strong opinions and in this photo she is stating a statement about her life.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • morning coffee with the nana staras

    • morning coffee with the nana staras
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    • This photo was taken in July outside of my school the south west mountains of Bulgaria. In my community, which is 100% Bulgarian Muslim the women have a traditional dress that includes a head scarf and colorful pants called shalvary. Through out...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sorting Out Coffee

    • Sorting Out Coffee
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    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar. It’s July 15th, 2011. I want to fetch water at the fountain. But, once again, the flow is slow and it’s taking forever. I had brought the Economist to read. But, J… is sorting the coffee, taking out...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Almost There

    • Almost There
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    • 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
    • The Wait

    • The Wait
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    • 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
    • Mother and Child Nutrition Training

    • Mother and Child Nutrition Training
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    • This photo was taken by Maya, a Peace Corps health volunteer, in a rural village a two hours hike from her site in the northeast of Madagascar. These women are participating in a monthly health education session, during which they weigh their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waiting for the Footballer

    • Waiting for the Footballer
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    • I joined another Volunteer for her malaria and sports came on the border town of Ribaou. Each day as we walked to the the camp two women would sit soaking in the morning air and chatting away. She was neither wearing the green scarf nor the stern...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Income Generating Activities

    • Income Generating Activities
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    • I worked with this women's group during my 3rd year extension. They started a a new income generating project that year. They would dye material and then sew them into bags for sale. All their profits went towards sending orphans from surrounding...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-weaving Corte

    • Hand-weaving Corte
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    • Corte, the traditional Indigenous wrap worn by women is hand made with several steps. This giant loom is the final step of this process that takes several weeks. In the town of San Andres Xecul, Totonicapan, Guatemala, corte is made by the majority...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kids Can Sew Too!

    • Kids Can Sew Too!
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    • This photo was taken during a break at a sewing workshop in Natokalau Village, Fiji. I was teaching a week-long workshop to women and saw the children very interested. October 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos

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