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    • Digging Wells

    • Digging Wells

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Digging for water, slowly, bucket by bucket, Kongoussi masons hoist dirt from the well they are digging for their village. Once the dirt is removed, cementing will begin. One of the major concerns of well diggers is cave-ins. If the cementing is...
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    • Entering the Well

    • Entering the Well

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Rope pulled taut, this Volunteer prepares to be lowered into the well. With the help of Pinsa villagers, the well construction is nearing an end. When completed, the well will be used mainly to supply drinking water. Livestock watering and small...
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    • Dam Repair

    • Dam Repair

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Action Peace Corps Volunteers work with villagers to repair the Dabesma dam in Upper Volta. The trench will be filled with cement to strengthen the dam and the workers walk along the top tamping down the soil with metal instruments designed by a...
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    • Well Construction

    • Well Construction

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • This Volunteer aids drought-stricken Upper Volta in its urgent quest for more water. Since 1972, he has helped Dargo and surrounding villages construct 23 hand-dug cement-lined wells. 1974
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    • Wells in Upper Volta

    • Wells in Upper Volta

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • With a mixture of pride and awe, Hamdoulaye villagers gaze into the cavernous depths of their newly completed well. Few villages in the Hamdoulaye area have ever had a well, not even a dirt one, because the sources of water are too deep to reach...
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    • Well Construction

    • Well Construction

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer started out in Upper Volta aiding in the construction of wells and rural development. After two years, he and anotherVolunteer conceived and started an agricultural resources magazine for Voltaic agriculture agents and concerned...
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    • Hospital Center for Maternal and Child Health

    • Hospital Center for Maternal and Child Health

    • Knight Foundation; Health; Medicine; Maternal and child health

    • This Volunteer works at the Yako hospital center for maternal and child health care and directs mobile PMI teams that provide health surveillance in surrounding villages. Children found to be suffering from malnutrition are brought to the hospital...
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    • Reforestation Project

    • Reforestation Project

    • Knight Foundation; Environment; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer works in village reforestation projects in Ouahigouya. In a government effort to halt the steady encroachment of the Sahara Desert, he has helped plant nearly 30,000 trees. His base of operations is the Ouahigouya tree nursery which...
    • Agency Photos
    • Discussing Construction

    • Discussing Construction

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer is working on a long-term development project involving health surveillance, nutrition, well-digging, vegetable production and reforestation. The main focus of his activities has been village health surveys and a disease and...
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    • Documenting Ancient Customs and Ritual Ceremonies

    • Documenting Ancient Customs and Ritual Ceremonies

    • Knight Foundation; Music

    • This Volunteer is in his seventh year as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He spent his first two years as a well-digger, during which time he became interested in the music of Upper Volta. Because the older generation of musicians (griots) was dying off...
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    • Earthen Dam Construction Project

    • Earthen Dam Construction Project

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Shown in this photo are villagers repairing the Dabesma dam, a project started by a former Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Upper Volta from September 1969 to March 1973, building earthen dams to decrease watershed and runoff after the rainy...
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    • Earthen Dam Construction Project

    • Earthen Dam Construction Project

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Piela workers walk along the top of the dam to tamp down the soil, while a villager plays a one-string violin type instrument to spur them on. Piela is the site of an earthen dam construction project. 1974
    • Agency Photos
    • Digging Wells

    • Digging Wells

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • This Action Peace Corps Volunteer digs wells in Boulsa, Upper Volta. He has helped the villagers put in 14 new cement-lined wells, and deepen several others. He is shown here with a co-worker at a well to be used for a vegetable gardening...
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    • Reinforcing the Well

    • Reinforcing the Well

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • A voltaic mason inserts steel reinforcing rods in order to add another meter’s depth to this well in Boulsa. 1974
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    • Constructing the Walls of the Well

    • Constructing the Walls of the Well

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • A Bourzanga villager mixes cement for the walls of the well. The strenuous task of constructing a well usually takes four or five months. Since all available hands are needed in the field during the growing season from late June to early November,...
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    • Poultry Production Center

    • Poultry Production Center

    • Knight Foundation; Agriculture; Health

    • This Volunteer develops self-help projects in the village of Sala. He is working now on a new poultry production center, which will help the villagers earn an income and also improve their diet. Here, he and some of the village men are on their way...
    • Agency Photos
    • Reinforcing the Well

    • Reinforcing the Well

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • A voltaic mason inserts steel reinforcing rods in order to add another meter’s depth to this well in Boulsa. 1974
    • Agency Photos

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