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...
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...
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...
A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
Volunteers; Host families; Pre-service training (PST)
During our training our host mother asked us to go with here into nature (hike) into the hills surrounding the village of Modra. We didn't know at the time that is was a political rally for a political party, of which there were many. We were...
My neighbor's children caring for each other while their mother worked in the market. This little girl carried her baby sister on her back all day long.
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...
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...