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    • Zoya's Sew Shop

    • Zoya's Sew Shop

    • Artisans; Host community; Traditional dress

    • Zoya works in a small room just off the shortcut I take into town every day. She says she learned how to sew when she was 17 at classes she took at the cultural house in Yeghegnadzor over 30 years ago. She along with her soviet era sewing machine...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Technology; Youth

    • This photo was taken while my husband taught a Basics of Computers class to a group of young Basotho men in Lesotho. The photo captures him explaining the use of the keyboard for the first time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Building Business Signs

    • Youth Building Business Signs

    • Host community friends; Volunteers;

    • As a Municipal Development Volunteer, I worked with a group of youth originating from rural and urban parts of the municipality. In this photo, an unofficial counterpart and I were teaching them how to make wooden signs for businesses in their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Traditional dress; Children

    • This little girl is one of my neighbors and she is the loudest little girl. She will see me coming from a mile away and scream my name as loud as she can before running over and chatting non-stop in the local language, Kiborana. On this day in June...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • Young girl

    • Young girl

    • Children; Host families

    • This is a photo of a young girl posing for the camera. The photo was taken (using color accent) at a friend's house in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana on December 25, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • You vs. Me

    • You vs. Me

    • Education; Sports

    • In the Spring of 2011, two of my very best friends came from Kansas to visit me in my village in Moldova. Because I am a teacher, I brought them to my school for the day so they could get to know some of my students, and my students could meet some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • You Don't Have to Be a Dentist to Find Cavities

    • You Don't Have to Be a Dentist to Find Cavities

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Children

    • The children in my village have taken me in at their big sister, calling me "kakak" rather than my actual name. It's heartwarming. They love to take me to the sugarcane fields that surround our village. They run with knifes, and it makes me...
    • 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
    • Yoga in Pilatovets

    • Yoga in Pilatovets

    • Sports; Children; Volunteers

    • On August 18th, 2011, the second day of a summer camp in Bulgaria, I led a yoga class. The picture shows me, second from the left, and a group of girls, ages 8-12, in the Warrior I pose. Women and girls were very interested in fitness. As an after...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemena Weaving

    • Yemena Weaving

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

    • June 2011- Yemena from the Cooperative Chorouk in Tounfite, Morocco weaves a traditional carpet.
    • 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
    • Writing in my Journal

    • Writing in my Journal

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken in 1990. Sitting at my dining table, I wrote in my journal daily during my Peace Corps service in Antigua, West Indies. On the wall above me is a map of the Eastern Caribbean where I called home at this time in my life. On...
    • 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 Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • This photo was taken on May 21, 2010 in East Java, Indonesia during Pre-Service Training. We did the world map project in the village community center. The little kids in the village loved to help paint!
    • Volunteer Photos

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