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    • Young Love

    • Young Love

    • Celebrations; children; traditional dress

    • 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
    • Yoga Masters

    • Yoga Masters

    • Youth Development; Girls' Education

    • Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. Part of our aim is empowerment through health and ownership of one's body. Every Wednesday after school, anywhere from 15-25...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yebo Gogo!

    • Yebo Gogo!

    • health; elders

    • For the past 9 months, I have been working with a group of Grannys (in South Africa they are known as Gogos) to form a health education group. Often the ones left to cook, clean, and care for young babies while their own children go to cities to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yebo Gogo

    • Yebo Gogo

    • Elders; Youth

    • I took this photo in Naas, South Africa on March 23, 2011. The woman pictured is the grandmother or Gogo in siSwati of a client that I work with. Gogos have frequently become the primary care givers in a country where many children are orphaned as...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Teachers and Students; World Map Project

    • Some students and I working on painting a world map in one of the classrooms at our school in Bagare, Burkina Faso in September 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Aids Day Celebration

    • World Aids Day Celebration

    • Celebrations; HIV/AIDS

    • For World Aids Day 2010, the community gathered together to put on an amazing event. The community experienced performances from students and youth, HIV education, personal testimonies from people living with HIV, condom demonstrations,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working in the Soy Field in Meri, Cameroon

    • Working in the Soy Field 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, the women would teach...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Without a Door

    • Without a Door

    • Elders; Host community friends

    • I took this photo on December 9, 2010 during the 16 Days of Activism, an annual campaign on gender-based violence. In one of our door-to-door outreach efforts in Block A, South Africa, a woman invited me and my coworkers into her house to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Disaster preparedness and mitigation

    • While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, wildfire awareness and prevention was incorporated into my Disaster Mitigation project. Community rescue brigades were instructed how to eliminate fire hazards from their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Disaster preparedness and mitigation

    • While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, wildfire awareness and prevention was incorporated into my Disaster Mitigation project. Community rescue brigades were instructed how to eliminate fire hazards from their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Disaster preparedness and mitigation

    • While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, wildfire awareness and prevention was incorporated into my Disaster Mitigation project. Community rescue brigades were instructed how to eliminate fire hazards from their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Wildfire prevention, El Salvador.

    • Disaster preparedness and mitigation; medicine

    • While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, I was assisting a Salvadoran NGO in first aid instruction to rural community rescue brigades. During one such demonstration word came from another community further up the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wild Horses

    • Wild Horses

    • environment

    • Not only one of the Rolling Stones greatest hits, but great subjects for this photo. this was taken in 1990 on a hike with a road engineer named Jeff. It was without a doubt the coldest hike I have ever been on in my life.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wheelbarrow

    • Wheelbarrow

    • camps and clubs; sports

    • This photo was taken in March 2008 in Santa Rosa, Paraguay at a regional youth leadership camp. The camp was held during one day where youth, ages 13-21 came to be empowered to become leaders. They learned skills, such as this one, which focused...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What Topography!

    • What Topography!

    • environment

    • This photo was taken in September 1990 outside Bandipur, Nepal. This photo was taken at about 4500-5000 ft of elevation. In Nepal, you don't ask people where they live. You ask "how high" their village is. Elevation is the main thing that dictates...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding Day

    • Wedding Day

    • celebrations

    • 15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitos and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked and...
    • Volunteer Photos

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