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    • A wai and a smile

    • A wai and a smile

    • Dance; Traditional dress; Youth

    • This photo was taken on January 5, 2011 of three young girls who are about four years old. It is Children's Day in Thailand, where all over the country communities organize fun activities for the children and their families. These three girls are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Straw Mat Weaving 101

    • Straw Mat Weaving 101

    • artisans; elders; host families

    • This is a photo of my host mother during Pre-Service Training from March 3, 2010 in Matshipe, South Africa. A Sotho mother of eight, she loved to spend the hot South African summers laying on her woven straw mats underneath the shade. One...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Elmo Goes on Holiday in South Africa

    • Elmo Goes on Holiday in South Africa

    • children; host community friends

    • This photo is of my five-year-old neighbor Lindi in Mzinti, South Africa from November 8, 2010. Lindi is holding a recently donated Elmo doll from the United States. She supports it alongside her back with a tied cloth in the same manner that rural...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • South Africa v.s. Mexico

    • South Africa v.s. Mexico

    • sports; youth

    • In June 2010, excitement surrounding the FIFA World Cup reverberated from the cities to the rural areas of South Africa. In this photo, kids in Mzinti, South Africa are playing soccer at the local grounds as the opening match team, the national...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Party

    • Dance Party

    • youth development; dance

    • This photo is taken in my village. For over a year I have been working with a youth club which focuses on lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. To commemorate one year together as a group, we had a party complete with a talent show. In this...
    • 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
    • Proud to be a Woman

    • Proud to be a Woman

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girl's empowerment. Here, we celebrated International Women's Day by discussing what our roles are as women today, successful and significant women...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Secondary school learner Patricia shows off her primary artistic tool while making hand-print t-shirts at a Camp GLOW in Graskop, South Africa on February 9, 2011. The week-long camp consisted of sessions on life skills, girls empowerment and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken on our final day of a 6 day girls' empowerment camp that I planned and lead with a fellow PCV in July of 2011. Throughout this camp we discussed topics ranging from healthy relationships, to domestic violence, to journaling and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Looking Away

    • Looking Away

    • youth

    • A young Zambian watched as I took photographs of the various surroundings of village life. When I turned and pointed my lens his way, he quickly turned away, pretending he had never been looking at me. His posture and serious face in front of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family

    • Family

    • host families; children

    • I took this photo in March 2011. I love this picture because it portrays so much of what I love about Peace Corps: my relationship with my host family. I spend many afternoons laughing with Gogo, and teaching English to and playing with the small...
    • 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

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