A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here she is shown in overalls, embracing one of the women who lives in the village.
A Volunteer teaches the students shorthand, typing, office practice and commerce. As principal of the school, she helped set up the curriculum and purchase equipment and supplies with government funds and donations from private organizations.
A Volunteer teaches the students shorthand, typing, office practice and commerce. As principal of the school, she helped set up the curriculum and purchase equipment and supplies with government funds and donations from private organizations.
Aicha Boulmahuahib was the midwife at the local hospital at Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco where I lived for 2 years. The day I met her, we automatically started developing health workshops for women in the community. Also, I assisted her on...
Host families; Host community friends; Celebrations
Like many Peace Corps Volunteers before and after me, Seyni was my Baba (father). Being posted in Dosso, Niger where Seyni was the Peace Corps Program Assistant, I became very close to him and his family. It was a rare day that I did not hear the...
A Volunteer is assigned to the Jacaranda School in Nairobi, Kenya. The school is for mentally handicapped and retarded. It is located in the suburbs 20 minutes by bus from town. She works with nursery age, mentally and physically handicapped...
A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here, she and her counterpart, center, and supervisor, left. They visited children in the villages.
A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here, she and her counterpart, center, and supervisor, left. They visited children in the villages.
This photo was taken December 1, 2011 in my village in Burkina Faso. We celebrated World AIDS day by giving a village-wide awareness campaign and condom demonstrations. Surprisingly, one of the volunteers for practicing with the female condom was...