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    • Youth Day Parade

    • Youth Day Parade

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day in Kolofata

    • World AIDS Day in Kolofata

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in December of 2012 at a high school in Cameroon. The Health Club and Girls Empowerment Club partnered together to hold a series of events for the school population to commemorate World AIDS Day. The most popular part was the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo I took on World AIDS Day 2011 at the Lycee Bokito in Cameroon. We worked with the high school students to prepare speeches, video screenings, contests, and a testing center to raise awareness of the illness and promote prevention....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • HIV/AIDS; Media coverage

    • This photo was taken during the West Regional Project in Bafoussam, Cameroon on World AIDS Day 2010- an event working with 22 Peer Educators. Volunteers and host country nationals met in the regional capital and paraded, passed out condoms (male...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working in the soy field.

    • Working in the soy field.

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • While serving in the village of Meri, in the extreme north region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in the village. To pass the time while we worked, they would...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working in the Soy Field in Meri, Cameroon

    • Working in the Soy Field in Meri, Cameroon

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture; Traditional dress

    • While serving in the village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in Village. To pass the time while we worked, the women would teach...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working during the harvest in Meri, Cameroon.

    • Working during the harvest in Meri, Cameroon.

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture; Traditional dress

    • While serving in the village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in Village. To pass the time while we worked, they would teach me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Agriculture

    • Strong winds may kick up a lot of dust in the Far North of Cameroon, but the Kapsiki women here use this force of nature to separate beans and grains from there protective layers. January 27th, 2012.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Whoa There!

    • Whoa There!

    • Celebrations; Animals

    • This photo was taken in May 2008 in Tibati, Cameroon, during the town's annual Independence Day parade. This horseman was getting a bit out of control with all of the crowd's oh's and ahh's.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • International Women's Day; celebrations

    • For International Women's Day, the women leaders of Maroua took a day trip to Pouss to meet their Sultan and to Maga to see the fishing and rice production. I had the honor of being invited to pariticipate. Every place we stopped the villagers...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Dishes

    • Washing Dishes

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Children

    • Village girls learn by watching their mothers. This photo was taken in the early winter of 2011 in the North West Region of Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waiting for the Footballer

    • Waiting for the Footballer

    • Traditional dress; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • I joined another Volunteer for her malaria and sports came on the border town of Ribaou. Each day as we walked to the the camp two women would sit soaking in the morning air and chatting away. She was neither wearing the green scarf nor the stern...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Work; Teachers and students

    • During the last year of my Peace Corps service I decided to visit many of my students in their villages. Except for one, we (delegation of students and I) went everywhere on foot and had a lot fun along the way too. Our visit was greatly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Children and Me

    • Village Children and Me

    • Children; Celebrations

    • During one of many local celebrations, I took a photo with children in my village. The celebration was near my house and these were the kids I saw regularly. The picture was taken on September 27, 2009 in Batié, Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Housing in Cameroon

    • Traditional Housing in Cameroon

    • Housing

    • Northern Cameroon. Example of traditional housing in the north of Cameroon where villages are nested together with a barrier surrounding the simple huts to keep the animals from entering their compounds. Casimir is sitting on top of a small...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tofu Making

    • Tofu Making

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • I took this photo of a fellow Volunteer, Julie, helping her counterpart, Suzi (shown), demonstrate a tofu making class to the women at an orphanage in my village of Baham, Cameroon. In the photo, Julie and Suzi are straining the soy milk before...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching Women the Internet

    • Teaching Women the Internet

    • technology; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • During April 2011, I organized ICT classes for members of my women’s group. First-time computer users, the Cameroonian women learnt how to use the internet and set-up e-mail accounts. It was a great income generating activity for the cyber...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching the Biology of HIV

    • Teaching the Biology of HIV

    • Teachers and students; HIV/AIDS

    • In this photo is Volunteer Liz Anderson teaching a class of 30 girls a session on the biology and transmission of HIV during a Girls Empowerment HIV Awareness Summer Camp in Baham, Cameroon, August 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sunday Market in Mora

    • Sunday Market in Mora

    • Markets

    • This photo is taken at the colorful, wonderful Sunday Market in Mora, Cameroon. This vendor was there every week with his beautiful assortment of calabashes and other carved items. I bought many souvenirs from him!
    • Volunteer Photos

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