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    • Village Health Team Training

    • Village Health Team Training
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    • Here, I'm teaching at a village health team training about diarrhea and dehydration and how to prepare oral rehydration solution (ORS). The village health team program is an initiative of the Ministry of Health to train local residents in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Two Old Ladies

    • Two Old Ladies

    • Elders; Children

    • I served as town photographer while teaching secondary school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. This sitting was of an older woman and her grand daughter who were both called "Old Lady." Out of respect for her age, the woman was Old...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Liberian Folklore

    • Liberian Folklore

    • Children

    • These children are half siblings of my next door neighbors where I taught school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. At the time, they were both too young to have names, so they were known as "Little Old Lady" and "Little Old Man." ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • From Above

    • From Above

    • Construction; Volunteerism

    • I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. This is a view taken from the top of the bathroom, looking down. This picture was taken by a Moroccan volunteer using my camera. The volunteers are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Physics Class

    • Physics Class

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • I took this photo of my Volunteer friend, Doug. He is teaching his form one physics class and his school does not have much furniture. He is an education Volunteer and his town is almost completely Muslim. This was taken spring of 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching The Mudawana

    • Teaching The Mudawana

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Teachers and students

    • Victoria, a Volunteer in Morocco from 2004-06, teaching the Mudawana (New Law on Women's Rights) in Tinjdad, Morocco.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Maternal and child health

    • This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kickin' it with Aissa...

    • Kickin' it with Aissa...

    • Life skills; Crafts; Business development

    • This photo of Aissa (one of the tailors I work with at site), Saphira (Aissa's daughter), and me was taken in Aissa's workshop about five months into our friendship. Aissa is seriously one of most motivated individuals I have met since being here...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tea Time

    • Tea Time

    • Food and meals

    • A volunteer is preparing tea after a long days hard work for all of the other volunteers. He participated in helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. You can still see the cement bags that have yet to be used in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Myra Carrying Funeral Feast Leftovers

    • Myra Carrying Funeral Feast Leftovers

    • Funerals; Food and meals

    • After attending a funeral feast during the Month of Flies, my "sister" Myra carried my share of the leftovers home. She carried my food in a coconut fond basket that was made on-the-spot. Myra is the oldest daughter of the couple whose home I...
    • Volunteer Photos

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