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    • Closing Ceremony 2011 at Leadership Camp

    • Closing Ceremony 2011 at Leadership Camp

    • Children; Education; Girls' education

    • This picture was taken in July of 2011 in Kyrgyz Republic. This picture was taken at the closing ceremony of a Leadership Camp (joint GLOW and TOBE) developed and conducted by Volunteers. Peace Corps Volunteer Jennifer is receiving an award given...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rural Community Development

    • Rural Community Development

    • Education; Community development; Health; Girls' education

    • These two Volunteers work in rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteers work with African women from the Ony Babre village as they cut out dress patterns for the women to sew. When the girls...
    • Agency Photos
    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Education; Girls' education

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Andy (TEFL Turkmenistan) seems to have attracted a bevy of beauties to his after-school English Club. Young Turkmen women balance tradition, with long hair and hand-embroidered, long dresses, yet have a sense of fashion that...
    • Staff Photos
    • Volunteer Teaching Women to Sew

    • Volunteer Teaching Women to Sew

    • Education; Girls' Education; Health; Community development

    • This Volunteer works in the rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches Ony Babre women sewing.
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Teaching Sewing

    • Volunteer Teaching Sewing

    • Education; Girls' education; Health; Community development

    • This Volunteer works in the Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches Ony Babre women sewing.
    • Agency Photos
    • Camp G.L.O.W., Pohnpei 2010

    • Camp G.L.O.W., Pohnpei 2010

    • Girls' education; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Camps and clubs

    • Two PCVs get ready for the start of Camp G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World). FSM Pictured: Amanda (M76) and Kate (M75) June 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp GLOW Preparations

    • Camp GLOW Preparations

    • teachers and students; Camps and clubs; girls' education

    • This photo was taken during a PDM workshop in April, 2011 in Chengdu, China. Two students from Sichuan Normal University attended the workshop, and will serve as leaders during the camp. The photo shows two PCVS, and two Chinese students holding...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Apple Pie

    • Apple Pie

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

    • This photo was taken of Sarah, an environmental education PCV in Senegal, while she teaches middles school girls how to make apple pie during the food cultural exchange session of our girls' leadership camp July 2011 in Ndioum, Senegal.
    • 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
    • Girls' Education

    • Girls' Education

    • Girls' education; Health; Teachers and students

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer teaches female hygiene at a commercial school in Ibague, Colombia, to a group of girls of various ages.
    • Agency 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
    • 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
    • You Go Girl

    • You Go Girl

    • Girls' education; Host community

    • Many of the men in my village leave to find work in Italy. They are gone for years at a time while the women and girls have to make ends meet in village, waiting for money to be sent over. This is a photo of three girls from my village in...
    • 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
    • Anticipation

    • Anticipation

    • Health; Girls' education

    • This photo was taken a few weeks ago at a health fair in Ecuador. My counterpart agency is Plan Internacional, and part of our booth included proper condom use demonstrations. These are students from a local high school that attended the fair,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga Masters

    • Yoga Masters

    • Youth Development; Girls' Education

    • Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. Part of our aim is empowerment through health and ownership of one's body. Every Wednesday after school, anywhere from 15-25...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Namibian High Schoolers at Camp

    • Namibian High Schoolers at Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Girls' education; Teachers and students

    • Grade 11 girls from Rehoboth (Namibia) High School work as a team to transport a tire and all team members across an obstacles without touching the ground. Students were attending a week-long leadership camp at Aus, Namibia. The enrichment camp...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Club de Muchachas

    • Club de Muchachas

    • Girls' education; Health; Education

    • This is my girl's club, Club de Muchachas, in El Limon, Nicaragua, in Nueva Segovia close to the Honduran border. This area later became known as "Contra country" after the revolution. These girls took up leadership roles in their community, and...
    • Volunteer Photos

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