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    • Women Baking Lavash

    • Women Baking Lavash

    • Food and meals; Traditional dress; Host community

    • My neighbors operate a lavash bakery and I often go there in the winter time to hang out because the ladies are always good for a fun conversation and it is nice and warm in there. The process is fascinating to watch, obviously these women have had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Fishing on the Niger

    • Women Fishing on the Niger

    • Fishing

    • Women in Tiguibery, Guinea, fish with their children in tow. After catching the tiny fish, the women gracefully placed their catch in the calabash bowls balanced on their heads. The dry season on the Niger River also allows locals to do their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women from Timbi-Tounni

    • Women from Timbi-Tounni

    • Crafts; Food and meals; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • When I served as an Education Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea (West Africa), I met strong women, women with the ability of inspiring happiness despite their hard lives. They are in charge of the entire household, which includes exhausting tasks...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Keeping Their City Clean!

    • Women Keeping Their City Clean!

    • Children; Water and sanitation

    • Another big part of the solid waste management project was the clean-ups organized at the neighborhood level. Generally in Senegal "cleaning up" is women's work. Men and children throw their garbage on the floor expecting women to clean it up. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Selling Fish at the Market

    • Women Selling Fish at the Market

    • Markets

    • It’s Saturday morning, it’s market day in the village. Market day is a busy day. Saleswomen and men come a long (or not) way to sell their produce or products. It’s especially busy between June and September; especially busy in July. That is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Walking With Pails

    • Women Walking With Pails

    • Construction

    • Building a new home in rural Zambia takes a lot of time and effort. On May 30, 2008, in the small village of Chiposa in the Luapula province, much of the community helped to build a home of mud bricks and dried grass for a struggling family in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Chorus in Vilkova, Ukraine

    • Women's Chorus in Vilkova, Ukraine

    • Art; Traditional Dress; Celebrations

    • One of the many women's choruses at a Festival of Russian Culture in Vilkova, Ukraine, 2009. This region of southern Ukraine was formerly called Bessarabia, and I have been told that there are more than 30 ethnic groups or cultures in Odessa...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Custom Dance

    • Women's Custom Dance

    • Traditional dress; Dance

    • The women of the village Nereingman, Mota Lava, presented a custom dance during a cultural celebration. Unfortunately, the dance had to take place inside the village meeting house when it started raining. The leader of the group's name is Marian,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wood Fire Cooking

    • Wood Fire Cooking

    • Food and meals

    • Although tanks of natural gas are available in this small pueblito in Queretaro, Mexico, families here still cook on open wood fires to a large extent. Trucks selling gas make themselves noisily known as they drive through town with music blaring...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Work Outing

    • Work Outing

    • Transportation; Counterparts

    • This is a picture was taken in June 2011 on route back to the office. This photo opportunity occurred during a work outing to visit an OTOP project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Work Together, Play Together

    • Work Together, Play Together

    • Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken in Andringitra, Madagascar. Two Peace Corps Volunteers, Kurt and Sonia, along with their sisters (visiting), met up with the Club Vintsy (an environment club). Kurt and Sonia did a lot of their work with Club Vintsy in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working and Learning in the New Computer Lab

    • Working and Learning in the New Computer Lab

    • Technology; Education

    • This photo features a group of 5th graders at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). It was taken November 10, 2009 shortly after the new computers arrived and the desks and painting had been completed. Along...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working during the harvest in Meri, Cameroon.

    • Working during the harvest 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, they would teach me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working Hand-in-Hand To Make a Difference

    • Working Hand-in-Hand To Make a Difference

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. This image is of the four Volunteers who helped make the awareness campaign such a huge success. The "flag" they are...
    • 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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