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    • Turkmenistan Training Group

    • Turkmenistan Training Group

    • Host families; Animals

    • With a fellow Volunteer's host mother and little host sister, we pose in our teaching clothes beside (and on top of) "Good Camel," named because she was much nicer -- and less spitting -- than the other camel on the compound. 2007
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pre-Performance Jitters

    • Pre-Performance Jitters

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • The 8th Grade Girls' Festival was a very big deal for the 28th School in Baharly, Turkmenistan in the winter of 2008. The girls competing in the festival designed and sewed their velvet dresses, and hand-sewing the intricate embroidery around their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Paper Making

    • Paper Making

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • In April 2012, a club of primary school students learned how to make recycled paper at a local teacher training school in a small town in southern Mozambique. In this club, students learn skills that will help them to support themselves or their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Paper Making

    • Paper Making
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    • In April 2012, a club of primary school students learned how to make recycled paper in a small town in southern Mozambique. In this club, students learn skills that will help them to support themselves or their education, as well as information...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Opening a New World

    • Opening a New World

    • Libraries; Youth

    • There were no book stores in Turkmenistan, only warehouses of textbooks. The culture of reading had left with the fall of the Soviet Union, but the desire to learn about a greater world and see images of life beyond their borders brought a full...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning to Make Carpets

    • Learning to Make Carpets

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

    • A friend took this photo of me during training in 2007 in Godkepe, Turkmenistan, at a women's carpet-making "factory," a collective warehouse where women came together to weave large carpets. The knot-making was not complicated, but time consuming,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "You were my friend before I got AIDS"

    • "You were my friend before I got AIDS"

    • HIV/AIDS; Music

    • This music school, located in Mozambique, performs in various community events, like the wedding pictured here. At the school, they learn to play instruments, to sing, and to dance traditional dances. Many of the songs that they sing and perform...
    • Volunteer Photos

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