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- A Basketball School in Paraguay
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Sports; Secondary projects; Youth - Volunteer Stories
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- The Inspiration to Act: a Peace Corps Story in Morocco
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Peace Corps response (Crisis Corps); Career - Volunteer Stories
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- Still Living My Peace Corps Dream
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Teachers and students - Volunteer Stories
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- From Czechoslovakia to Africa
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Teachers and students; Weddings; Housing - Volunteer Stories
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- From Harlem to Sri Lanka: A Journey of a life-time
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Diversity; Pre-service training (PST) - Volunteer Stories
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- Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 3
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As part of my various tasks as a SEAD Volunteer, I helped develop micro-credit businesses. I traveled to the homes of rug maker, cake bakers, and bread makers. All the people I met I tried to help, with advise and education in western ways of... - Staff Photos
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- Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 2
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While working as a SEAD Volunteer, I helped Seda make and market her product unlevan lavash bread. I would travel to her mountian village, Ayagabts, Armenia, to work with her. I managed a micro-credit loan program as well during my time at my site... - Staff Photos
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- Baking Lavash Bread in Pit
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As a small business consultant (SEAD) I was advising this village women Seda, on how to sell her product, lavash bread. I witnessed her bake 100 lavash at a time in a wood fired ceramic pit in the mountain village of Aygabats, Armenia. It was... - Staff Photos
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- Kikuyu Binds
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Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Work; Host community friends; Gardens; Cross-cultural Transition - Volunteer Stories
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- Twice in My Life
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Schools; Celebrations - Volunteer Stories
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- "Cleaning Grass" with My Mom and Brother
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My mom, little brother and I are pulling weeds around the peanuts and enjoying the time together. - Volunteer Photos
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- "Mangi" Playing
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Children; Nutrition -
I visited a village near my school and found some wonderful kids. They wanted me to stay but I needed more than just sugar cane and sweet potatoes for dinner. Though they were fun they also showed signs of malnourishment. - Volunteer Photos
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- A Funeral Offering to the Widow
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Elders; Host community -
As a school we walked to this widow's house to give her a live pig, bags of rice, bags of fruit, and our money donation (from the faculty). The widow was the wife of a respected member of the school board. She in return gave all the visitors a... - Volunteer Photos
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- A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe
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Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends -
Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds... - Volunteer Photos
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- Aegviidu Post Office
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My first year in Peace Corps, I lived in a tiny little forest village of 1,000 square feet. It was charming, but lonely, particularly during the long, dark winter months. This was taken on one of the few days when the sun was out. - Volunteer Photos
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- An Official Ukrainian Meeting
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A meeting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - Donetsk - Volunteer Photos
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- Baby Weighing
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Maternal and child health -
Henou (Patrice) is a community health Volunteer. On a monthly basis, weather permitting (in other words, it wasn't raining), we would bike to the villages & farms surrounding Affem Kabye and weigh the children aged 5 and under. This is part of... - Volunteer Photos
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- Baby Weighing at Affem Kabye's "Case de Sante" (Health Hut)
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On a monthly basis, the community health Volunteers who worked at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) would conduct baby weighings using the Salter scale in the photo. We would weigh the children aged 5 and under. This is part of routine growth... - Volunteer Photos
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- Baby's Bath Time
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Water and sanitation; Maternal and child health -
Bath time. This is how Kabye village women give their baby a bath. Lots of water and soap. The babies normally scream. - Volunteer Photos
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