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    • Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra

    • 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
    • Zahra Baking Bread

    • Zahra Baking Bread

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • As a small business development Volunteer, I helped develop the local weaving association. Zahra was one of my host sisters and one of the most dedicated weavers. I spent a lot of time with her in her house as she baked bread every morning before...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zahra at Cave Door

    • Zahra at Cave Door

    • Artisans; Terrain

    • 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
    • Zahra and Terra weaving in her cave

    • Zahra and Terra weaving in her cave

    • Artisans; Crafts

    • As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with weavers in a rural village in Morocco. The hills surrounding our village were filled with cave dwelling nomads. I became very close with one of these families, the Lahcen Eshu family, and I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; games

    • This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga in the DR

    • Yoga in the DR

    • Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken during a Chicas Brillantes conference in February 2011. Volunteer Phoebe is teaching 50 young Dominican girls how to use yoga to relieve stress, build self-confidence and stay healthy. It was part of a 3-day conference that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemeni Shepherd Girls

    • 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
    • Yemena Weaving

    • Yemena Weaving

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

    • June 2011- Yemena from the Cooperative Chorouk in Tounfite, Morocco weaves a traditional carpet.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemen 2

    • Yemen 2

    • Volunteers

    • This is a photo of the entire team of Yemen 2 that arrived in September, 1974 including all Volunteers, Peace Corps Staff and Yemeni Staff. Jack (center top) sent me the photo the other dat. It may be the only photo of our complete team. Our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wrestling on the Darzak

    • Wrestling on the Darzak
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    • My assignment in 1972 was creating a photo essay on the Peace Corps/USAID Project called Operation Help. A book was published for the Afghan government to document the project that fed 250,000 people before the winter of 1972.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Worokia and the Beans

    • Worokia and the Beans

    • Host families;

    • Samabogo, Mali taken on 10/4/2009. This is my host mom, Worokia, at my village going away party. I bought 50 pounds of beans and invited my friends and family to eat and dance. I admit we are all bean eaters.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken December 3, 2011 during an event to mark the observance of World AIDS Day. This little girl attended the event, which included a candlelight vigil, a skit competition and informational session on SIDA. A group of young people...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • The women at the literacy association where I worked made this cake as part of the World AIDS Day celebration that we held on Dec. 1, 2011 in Morocco. The event featured a SIDA skit competition, a candlelight vigil, and informational session about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working The Land With My Host Parents

    • Working The Land With My Host Parents

    • Agriculture; Gardens; Host families

    • On the morning of June 18th, 2011, at 4:00am in Moldova, my host father knocks on the door to my room. I open the door, and am told "today we are going to work the land my son!" I was tired, yet excited. We then proceeded to walk about two miles to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working on the Visitors' Center

    • Working on the Visitors' Center

    • Architecture; Ecotourism

    • This is a photo of workers from the indigenous communities that my counterpart organization collaborated with making repairs to the Visitors' Center in the wildlife reserve we managed, as part of an infrastructure development project we coordinated.
    • 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
    • Working in the Soy Field in Meri, Cameroon

    • 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
    • Working in the Milpa

    • Working in the Milpa

    • Food and meals; Agriculture

    • The people seen here are part of large farming family from a small pueblito in Mexico. They go out together to their milpa in the country every Sunday to do whatever is needed to raise maize, peppers, beans, squash, and marigolds (for religious...
    • Volunteer Photos

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