This photo is taken in my village. For over a year I have been working with a youth club which focuses on lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. To commemorate one year together as a group, we had a party complete with a talent show. In this...
For the past 9 months, I have been working with a group of Grannys (in South Africa they are known as Gogos) to form a health education group. Often the ones left to cook, clean, and care for young babies while their own children go to cities to...
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girl's empowerment. Here, we celebrated International Women's Day by discussing what our roles are as women today, successful and significant women...
For World Aids Day 2010, the community gathered together to put on an amazing event. The community experienced performances from students and youth, HIV education, personal testimonies from people living with HIV, condom demonstrations,...
Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. Part of our aim is empowerment through health and ownership of one's body. Every Wednesday after school, anywhere from 15-25...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
Secondary school learner Patricia shows off her primary artistic tool while making hand-print t-shirts at a Camp GLOW in Graskop, South Africa on February 9, 2011. The week-long camp consisted of sessions on life skills, girls empowerment and...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken on our final day of a 6 day girls' empowerment camp that I planned and lead with a fellow PCV in July of 2011. Throughout this camp we discussed topics ranging from healthy relationships, to domestic violence, to journaling and...
I took this photo in March 2011. I love this picture because it portrays so much of what I love about Peace Corps: my relationship with my host family. I spend many afternoons laughing with Gogo, and teaching English to and playing with the small...