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    • Zoya's Sew Shop

    • Zoya's Sew Shop
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    • 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
    • Zebra

    • Zebra
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    • This photo was taken by me at the Wildlife Offices in Pandamatenga, Botswana. The area is full of wild African game and many of the animals are killed on the road and then are butchered where the meat is auctioned off to the local villagers. This...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zaire Fisheries

    • Zaire Fisheries
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    • Inspecting a pond with other aquaculture (fisheries) volunteers. We grew Tilapia. This was part of our orientation to farming in Zaire, prior to language training at Bukavu, Lake Kivu. 1980
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra

    • Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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 HIV/AIDS Workshop

    • Youth HIV/AIDS Workshop
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    • I took this photo during the Makira Island Youth HIV/AIDS workshop on July 6th, 2011, on Makira Island, Vanuatu. It was a one-day workshop focusing on teaching the youth of the island about HIV/AIDS. The workshop was broken up into four sections...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun
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    • 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
    • Youth Day Parade

    • Youth Day Parade
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    • This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Building Business Signs

    • Youth Building Business Signs
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    • As a Municipal Development Volunteer, I worked with a group of youth originating from rural and urban parts of the municipality. In this photo, an unofficial counterpart and I were teaching them how to make wooden signs for businesses in their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Love

    • Young Love
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    • 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 Kichwa Dancer

    • Young Kichwa Dancer
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    • 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

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