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- Working in the Soy Field in Meri, Cameroon
- Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture; Traditional dress
- 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, the women would teach...
- Volunteer Photos
- Yemeni Shepherd Girls
- Traditional dress; Host community friends
- Taken in the highlands of Yemen, somewhere between Amran and Thula, in Fall of 1977. My husband and I had arrived in Yemen about a week before and were hiking toward the highest mountain on the Arabian peninsula, and wondering how we would be...
- Volunteer Photos
- Yi Teenage Boy
- Youth; Traditional dress
- I lived in an area that was the capital of the Yi nationality. Although many Yi women are seen wearing traditional dress, it is less common to see the men in traditional dress. That's part of why I was so impressed with this boy's clothing. He...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Kichwa Dancer
- Children; Celebrations; Dance; Traditional dress
- This photo was taken on May 23, 2009 at a dance competition in Ecuador. Traditional Kichwa dances are performed at every public event in the Napo province and troupes are composed children of all ages. The dance steps describe traditional...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Love
- Celebrations; children; traditional dress
- This photo was taken in May 2008 at School #3662 in Isla Tobati, Paraguay. This is a traditional dance that the students were doing for a Mother's Day celebration. The photo shows a girl and boy in costume during the performance. They are both six...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Muslim Girl
- Traditional dress; Children
- This little girl is one of my neighbors and she is the loudest little girl. She will see me coming from a mile away and scream my name as loud as she can before running over and chatting non-stop in the local language, Kiborana. On this day in June...
- Volunteer Photos
- Youth at Dance Performance
- Children; Youth; Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations
- Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
- Volunteer Photos
- Youth CAN Ukrainian Dress Day
- Traditional dress
- This was taken by my Ukrainian friend Alex at a two week long Youth CAN (Youth Community Action Network) conference in eastern Ukraine. The day's theme was "Ukrainian Pride" and the shirts you are seeing are called "serochkas" - national dress worn...
- Volunteer Photos
- Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra
- Traditional dress; Food and meals; Counterparts
- As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with carpet weavers in developing their organization. I also worked with cave dwelling nomads that lived in the hills surrounding the village. This is Zahra, one of the nomads who is a weaver,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Zoya's Sew Shop
- Artisans; Host community; Traditional dress
- Zoya works in a small room just off the shortcut I take into town every day. She says she learned how to sew when she was 17 at classes she took at the cultural house in Yeghegnadzor over 30 years ago. She along with her soviet era sewing machine...
- Volunteer Photos