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    • Yoga in the DR

    • Yoga in the DR

    • Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken during a Chicas Brillantes conference in February 2011. Volunteer Phoebe is teaching 50 young Dominican girls how to use yoga to relieve stress, build self-confidence and stay healthy. It was part of a 3-day conference that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wardrobe Change

    • Wardrobe Change

    • Traditional dress; Host families

    • This is a photo taken of my host mother, her grandson, and I after she dressed me up in traditional Albanian clothing. The photo was taken in March 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Tsáchilas Touch

    • The Tsáchilas Touch

    • Traditional dress

    • Here, a tribal member the Tsáchilas community is applying the achiote paste to dye my hair...a sign of their welcoming me and my Omnibus into their tribe for the day, but also a way for us to enter their world and not just observe, but FEEL, what...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • the Griot

    • the Griot

    • Music; Celebrations

    • Every spring, classes at the public schools in Tchamba, Togo stop for Cultural Week. Students from different tribes have a chance to showcase their traditions, dances, food and more. It's a big festival organized for and by the students. In this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Team Building

    • Team Building

    • Games; Camps and clubs; Youth

    • The photo was taken during an Information, Education, Communication (IEC) campaign the Philippines. The kids in the photo are 4th year high school students along with the Volunteer who is leading them through a a team building exercise....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tanasho Community Schoool

    • Tanasho Community Schoool

    • Teachers and students

    • Volunteer Susan Poore opened a new community school in a village in Zambia. In this photo, we see her teaching mathematics while community teachers watch in the back.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sustainability

    • Sustainability

    • Life skills; Technology

    • This photo was taken at one of my sewing workshops in Fiji, South Pacific. I teach sewing skills that include repairing and maintaining sewing machines. My goal is that the participants know how to fix their only machines. In this photo- this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Smiling Students

    • Smiling Students

    • children; schools; environment

    • I took this picture of elementary school students on January 10, 2011 in my village. The staff, students, and family members were holding a local cleaning exercise at the Lower Basic school, and I was walking around taking pictures when the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Samburu Women DC 4th July Parade

    • Samburu Women DC 4th July Parade

    • Celebrations

    • Samburu women from a Volunteer's site in Kenya were selected to participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC, where they demonstrated the traditional art of weaving camel's milk baskets. While there, they watched a 4th of July...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sack Race

    • Sack Race

    • Games; Children

    • I took this photo during a community project on April 27, 2011, in Albania. The community project was a field day during the second half of the school day and feature several events including the sack race. The photo shows two girls and one boy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • READ!!!

    • READ!!!

    • schools; children

    • This photo was taken at Saint Monica's Primary School located along the Upper Pomeroon in the country of Guyana in March of 2011. It was taken during the reading lesson of the day, where the students would share the stories they read to the rest...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rare Moment of Interaction

    • Rare Moment of Interaction

    • Weddings

    • This photo was taken at an Indo-Fijian wedding. Suva, Fiji- May 2011. The celebration last more than nine hours. This shot was a rare moment of interaction between the bride and groom...when most all of the ceremony was very solemn.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Outdoor Kitchen

    • Outdoor Kitchen

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken in front of the home of a villager who prepares "kanom jeen" each morning in front of her house in Thailand. It's a peaceful setting with the white noise from the machines running, the birds chirping in the background and the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • No electricity....Sega Na Leqa (No Worries)

    • No electricity....Sega Na Leqa (No Worries)

    • Life skills; Technology

    • This photo was taken in Nagado, Fiji. during a sewing workshop I was conducting in January, 2011. I encouraged children to be part of the workshops and learn to sew and fix machines. These hand crank machines, along with natural sunlight, make the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Neem Cream

    • Neem Cream

    • health

    • I took this photo of my friend while I was teaching her and her family how to make neem cream. Neem cream is a local insect repellant made by boiling leaves of the neem tree and then mixing the neem water with soap and oil. It is very simple and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mujeres Poderosas

    • Mujeres Poderosas

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development

    • This photo that I took in January, 2011, shows young teenage girls from the Andes mountains in Shilla, Peru on their first day of the club Mujeres Poderosas (Powerful Women) in which they participated in a 6 week workshop where we talked about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mother and Child

    • Mother and Child

    • Maternal and child health

    • Once a month, I traveled to Nadjoubi with the medical assistant from the Tchamba hospital to give vaccines. I helped with his record keeping and answered basic health questions from the mothers. We also brought a scale to weigh babies and monitor...
    • Volunteer Photos

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