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    • Junior

    • Junior

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in June 2012 at La Ressource Combined school in St. Lucia. After seeing the HIV/AIDS awareness pin that I keep on my bag, a couple of grade 5 boys were interested in what it stood for. I came to find out that they knew very little...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls Leading Our World

    • Girls Leading Our World

    • girls' education

    • These girls were my students at the Dar Chebeb (Youth House) in Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco. I would teach them Spanish and English and help them on their french. We established weekend hours to play, learn about health and talk about what...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Classes

    • Classes

    • education

    • Kids would always love how I invented and translated songs from Spanish (my native language) to different languages. That would make them build better vocabulary. Also, they will also greet me around town in as many as 4 languages. So proud! Photo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • This photo was taken in September 2009 during Peace Corps training while I was staying with my host family. My host mother and auntie were teaching me how to weave mats on the weekends. I (Bina Contreras) am on the left, my host mother "Mama...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Snow in Africa

    • Snow in Africa

    • Climate; Host families

    • This is my little brother during a snow day in village. My host father woke me up early so i could see the snow, then as i walked out of my house, the first snowball hit me, well aimed and delivered by my little brother.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Youth development; Business development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Another Volunteer is assigned to the government farm cooperative of Machakos as administrative advisor.
    • Agency Photos
    • Laura with Students at the ENSUP

    • Laura with Students at the ENSUP

    • Youth; Teachers and students; Work

    • This photo was taken during the summer of 1991, shortly before I finished my work in Mali as a teacher trainer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, or l'ENSUP, in Bamako, Mali. These were the greatest students...they had survived a coup d'etat, in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Last Day - Smile and Tears

    • Last Day - Smile and Tears

    • Host community friends

    • It was 2003 and the end of my service in Mlangeni, Malawi. I had worked hard, especially with the youth raising awareness regarding HIV/AIDS and facilitating a rural volunteer counseling and testing program. All of these faces were a part of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Maratou's Dream

    • Maratou's Dream

    • Life skills; Girls' education; Camps and clubs

    • In this photo, Maratou creates her dream. During the summer of 2009, I co-facilitated a girl’s camp in Komteaga, Burkina Faso. We led the participants through nutrition, sexual education, good hygiene and goal-setting programs. For many of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fistula Center

    • Fistula Center

    • Women's movement

    • Mopti, Mali taken on August 07, 2008. I was giving a Moringa presentation as a part of a technical exchange with another Volunteer. The women at this center all had or were recovering from obstetric fistula.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Work; Teachers and students

    • During the last year of my Peace Corps service I decided to visit many of my students in their villages. Except for one, we (delegation of students and I) went everywhere on foot and had a lot fun along the way too. Our visit was greatly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • G.S.S. Tatum Donations

    • G.S.S. Tatum Donations

    • Work; Schools; Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • In 2001 I returned to Cameroon with 17 boxes of various donations for the students and the school. This photograph was taken during the reception of the donations at G.S.S. Tatum.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Government Secondary School Tatum

    • Government Secondary School Tatum

    • Work; Schools

    • I took this photograph of my school in 2000 after I returned to Cameroon to continue to assist the students. G.S.S. Tatum, now Government High School, is located in Bui Division in the Northwest region of Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos

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