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    • Three Musketeers ZairianStyle

    • Three Musketeers ZairianStyle

    • Host community friends; Fishing

    • Taken in 1988 as we waited on the pond bank for the first harvest of fish for this group of farmers. They showed me how to make hats out of big forest leaves for protection from the hot equatorial sun.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baking Cookies

    • Baking Cookies

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, culture exchange with her host sister cooking American cookies.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Moleando Maiz

    • Moleando Maiz

    • Cooking; Host families; Food and meals

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, culture exchange with her host mom learning how to grind corn.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cross-country Culture Exchange

    • Cross-country Culture Exchange

    • Host families

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, working with her host father, community guide and counterpart to lead her American family on a horseback ride to experience the Azueran campo and see the local monte.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Quincinera

    • Quincinera

    • Host families; Celebrations

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, celebrating her host sister’s quincinera.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sewing Curtains

    • Sewing Curtains

    • Life skills; Host families

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, home life sewing curtains with her host mom for her new house.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Chickens

    • School Chickens

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller, Sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, observing in the school with the students and the newly delivered chickens.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waste Management

    • Waste Management

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller , sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, giving a charla about waste – organic, inorganic, toxic and recycling.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Environmental Awards

    • Environmental Awards

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, teaching environmental education in the multigrado primaria, after giving the trimester awards for environmental stewardship.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Environmental Class

    • Environmental Class

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, teaching environmental education in the multigrado primaria, after a skit about animals from all 4 levels of the tropical rainforest (the kids wore the color of their animals for their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Environmental Campo Class

    • Environmental Campo Class

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, teaching environmental education in the multigrado primaria, after a skit about animals from all 4 levels of the tropical rainforest (the kids wore the color of their animals for their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Namibian Ingenuity

    • Namibian Ingenuity
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    • This photo was taken in Namibia in 2009. The hand lettered sign is similar to many hung on the fences surrounding houses in the 'location' that advertise something a family can provide to the public (with no middle men involved). It might be items...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Happy Pre-schoolers

    • Happy Pre-schoolers

    • Games; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken in 2009 at the Clay House Project in Namibia. The project built subsidized clay houses and environmentally friendly toilets that did not require running water or electricity. I was lucky enough to live in one of the volunteer...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Condom Poster

    • Condom Poster

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in the Peace Corps office in Windhoek, Namibia in 2008. It shows one of the ways information about HIV/AIDS is shared. I was a health Volunteer, so naturally my focus was HIV/AIDS. I explored many ways of teaching and sharing...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drama

    • Drama

    • Secondary projects

    • This photo was taken at the Joy Centre in Namibia. It is a residential/rehabilitation center for street kids. This shows some of their kids putting on a drama about teenage pregnancy--the daughter is telling the mother she's pregnant. Drama is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Game Count at CCF

    • Game Count at CCF

    • Secondary projects; Animals; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken in 2009 at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. It shows the people that were involved in an annual game count at CCF. This joint effort involved CCF staff, invited Volunteers from around Namibia, international...
    • Volunteer Photos

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