This photo was taken in April of 2006, in the primary school garden in Jidr El Mohghuen, Mauritania. The students in the picture, all in grades 3-6, planted tree nurseries earlier in the year, and we were transplanting the plucky surviving Moringa...
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); sports
This photo was taken in July of 2007 at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania. The girls in the picture come from villages all over the country, and are participating in an EcoHealth Camp organized by Health and Environmental Education...
The Bateyes, or Haitian migrant sugarcane-camps, are culturally isolated and the most impoverished communities within the Dominican Republic. In this photograph, four batey children play with an improvised toy while they run through the smoke...
In the summer of 2006, I joined some of the teachers at the YWCA in Belize City (where I was a Volunteer) in taking a group of 50 children to a papaya farm in the northern part of Belize. This trip was part of the Community Development programs...
San Benito Poite is one of the most remote villages in Belize. It is about 40 miles from the nearest district town, and about 3 miles from the border with Guatemala. The town where I served was about 7 hours from here (on a good day in the dry...