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    • Wash Those Little Hands

    • Wash Those Little Hands

    • Water and sanitation; Teachers and students

    • On October 15, 2010, Global Handwashing Day, I held a demonstration on how to use an old plastic bottle to wash your hands. The surrounding children are primary school students in the Educational Institution Fe y Alegria #70. The children continued...
    • Washing Dishes

    • Washing Dishes

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

    • Village girls learn by watching their mothers. This photo was taken in the early winter of 2011 in the North West Region of Cameroon.
    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills

    • I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Water and sanitation; Housing

    • Out my second story window, you can see my latrine (orange door) and kitchen straight ahead and shower to the left. Some of the year, there was a water basin, but I treated the water with bleach because there was algae and mosquitoes.
    • Waste Management

    • Waste Management

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller , sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, giving a charla about waste – organic, inorganic, toxic and recycling.
    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • The people of Issan (Northeast Thailand) are very resourceful, especially when it comes to eating. This is a boiling ox placenta. It so happens that the calf was named "Farang" (which means foreigner) in my honor. I was the first one to be...
    • Water Delivery

    • Water Delivery

    • Children; water and sanitation; Transportation

    • Water came from shallow wells in the creekbed. My neighbors delivered two jugs a week - about 10 gallons. This is my weekly delivery of water.
    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation

    • This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
    • Water Project

    • Water Project

    • Water and sanitation; Host community friends

    • Robert "RJ" Harper in Livingston, Guatemala moments after installing a water project with the local Garifuna community.
    • Water Supply

    • Water Supply

    • Water and sanitation; Site development

    • Running pipe, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. The women of the village were the movers and shakers and they were the driving force to get this water supply installed so they would not have to carry water up a very steep clay hill side.
    • Water: A Gift

    • Water: A Gift

    • water and sanitation; host community friends

    • Water in Cambodia is not a sparse commodity, at least during the rainy season. My host family used the pool of water in their back yard to clean clothes and dishes, as well as jump into when they were hot after playing volleyball. Rain in Cambodia...
    • Way of Life

    • Way of Life

    • Maternal and child health

    • Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia 2009 A woman carries a baby on her back while her brother looks on.
    • We Are All In This Together

    • We Are All In This Together

    • teachers and students; education

    • Teachers are learning English, along with the students, through the Speak English Every Day program. They are reading one of the weekly dialogues created by Volunteer Carla Arnold (2011-2013) and her Thai co-teacher. The students are given...
    • We Heart Beans

    • We Heart Beans

    • Elders; Food and meals; Cooking

    • Bulgarians eat a lot beans. This picture was taken in late September after the pods of the beans had dried on the stalk. Ahmed is taking the pleasure of beating all of the dried beans out of their shells and after this labor intensive work they...
    • We Live in a Beautiful World

    • We Live in a Beautiful World

    • teachers and students; education

    • This photo was taken at the Belize Zoo. Peace Corps Volunteer Christen Eure assisted a special education class in a field trip to the zoo where this sign is. The zoo features only rescued animals indigenous to Belize. The student with Christen...
    • We Roll Together

    • We Roll Together

    • Cooking; Host families; Food and meals

    • This is a photo of my host mother (Aishe) and I. This was the first time we made byrek together. She was teaching me how to effectively roll thin layers of pastry dough for the byrek. The photo was taken March 20, 2010.
    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health

    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health

    • Maternal and child health

    • Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 2

    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 2

    • Maternal and child health

    • Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day, where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...

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