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    • Volunteer Works to Construct Wells

    • Volunteer Works to Construct Wells

    • water and sanitation; construction

    • This Volunteer works with a team, which includes a gardener and a forester, to construct village wells in Baka-Were. In this photo, he and the village gardener examine a garden well being constructed with “dutch bricks”, a design developed by a...
    • Agency Photos
    • Repairing Broken Wells

    • Repairing Broken Wells

    • Water and sanitation; Counterparts

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works with counterpart Mr. Moussa Diawara, a regional agricultural extension worker, to repair broken wells in Falan.
    • Agency Photos
    • Health Education Volunteer

    • Health Education Volunteer

    • Water and sanitation; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of health as a health education volunteer, working with village health committees and independent groups. Here she teaches community children the importance of washing hands as part of family hygiene...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Discusses with Village Chief

    • Volunteer Discusses with Village Chief

    • Water and Sanitation; Elders

    • This Volunteer works in Tangassane as a water resource project manager. He is shown seated with village chief, Mohammane Adaa, in his mud-walled home. They drink the traditional tea as they discuss the plans for construction of three new wells.
    • Agency Photos
    • Health Education in Cameroon

    • Health Education in Cameroon

    • Water and sanitation; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is an itinerant agent for health education in Cameroon. Here he works with Eyo village health committee to complete the banking of mud walls to protec tthe spring water supply.
    • Agency Photos
    • Building Wells

    • Building Wells

    • Water and Sanitation; Transportation

    • This Volunteer works to improve water management in a Tamashek camp on an island in the Niger River Delta. She is shown helping villagers unload supplies, which she will use to construct three wells in her village. They will transport these...
    • Agency Photos
    • Peace Corps Wedding

    • Peace Corps Wedding

    • Weddings

    • I would say that something started to happen between Adam and I while riding across Guinea in a bush taxi. The car ride back to Conakry was 15 hours and we held hands during the entire trip while we talked about home. We got married 9 months after...
    • Staff Photos
    • Lemonade at the Titanic Club

    • Lemonade at the Titanic Club

    • Agriculture; Host community friends

    • Taking a break on a hot day in Rokupr, Sierra Leone, 1977. I had made my rounds to local farmers and stopped to pick up my mail and visit a friend over lemonade at the Titanic club. How hot was it? No thermometers, we didn't want to know!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Inland fisheries

    • Inland fisheries

    • Fishing; Work

    • This photo shows J. Carl, Inland fisheries Volunteer in Liberia, working on a water control feature, part of the main channel for the Duo Town Fisheries Complex. The other fellow (in the trench) is Stanley, a farmer and master carpenter. Carl...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Katuyola Ponds

    • Katuyola Ponds

    • Terrain; Fishing

    • This picture of two of my farmers' fish ponds in the village of Katuyola, Zambia. This photo was taken on the morning of our first fish harvest in 2002. It was a bit chilly and a mist was rising off the pond's surface. The pond on the right is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Master Basket Weaver at Work

    • Master Basket Weaver at Work

    • Artisans

    • This is a photo of the most talented basket weaver of the Artisan's Cooperative of Mayo-Ouldeme in Northern Cameroon. I worked closely with this coop group to get established and run a shop selling the wares of all the artisans in the village.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building a New Home

    • Building a New Home

    • Host community; Housing

    • This is a photo of Alphonse, the business adminstrator of the artisans' cooperative, with whom I worked very closely during my time in Mora. He save enough money to build a new house, with the help of family and friends in the village of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creating Teaching Materials

    • Creating Teaching Materials

    • Literacy; Language Training

    • My assignment was as a manager of a print shop. We created flanograph pictures to teach women about the natal process and others to teach men about a cooperative project to grow peanuts. I spoke French to the Nigerien and English to the Nigerian,...
    • Volunteer Photos

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