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    • 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
    • Education's Path

    • Education's Path

    • Celebrations; Teachers and students; Schools

    • This photo was taken on May 20, 2009 at the independence day celebrations in Lagdo, Cameroon. I had been working with this small parent's school located in an Mbororo village near where I was living. The Mbororo are traditionally nomadic...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Little Host Sister

    • Little Host Sister

    • Children; Host families

    • This is a picture of one of the sisters of my host family, where I stayed during pre-service training in the extreme north region of Cameroon. I was always welcomed back to the house after a long day of training with the beautiful smiling faces of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building Blocks

    • Building Blocks

    • Construction

    • After the harvests in the far north of Cameroon, it's time to build. Here, a group of Kapsiki men use mud bricks to construct another classroom for their children at the catholic primary school of Vitte. May 21st, 2012.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aissatou Roasting a Marshmallow

    • Aissatou Roasting a Marshmallow

    • Cooking; Host community friends

    • My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, where I was posted, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make s’mores and the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Agriculture; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Cooperation and Mutuality as a grain storage advisor for cooperatives in the northwest province of Cameroon. He gives lectures to farmers on good storage methods and principles and he educates them on...
    • Agency Photos
    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Agriculture; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Cooperation and Mutuality as a grain storage advisor for cooperatives in the northwest province of Cameroon. He gives lectures to farmers on good storage methods and principles and he educates them on...
    • Agency Photos
    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
    • Agency Photos
    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
    • Agency Photos
    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
    • Agency Photos
    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
    • Agency Photos
    • Helping pound millet in Meri, Cameroon.

    • Helping pound millet in Meri, Cameroon.

    • food and meals

    • This picture was taken outside of my village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon. My friend Abel and I went to visit his sister who lived en brosse, in the bush, in a very small community. I helped his sister piler, pound, millet and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Helping with the Pilar

    • Helping with the Pilar

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • This picture was taken outside of my village, Meri, in the extreme north region of Cameroon. My friend Abel and I went to visit his sister who lived en brosse (in the bush) in a very small community. I helped his sister piler, pound, millet and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reese and Boris

    • Reese and Boris

    • Host community friends

    • Strolling around on a Sunday afternoon after working in the training garden with my home-stay brother called Boris. Taken in the village of Mbo near Baffoussam, Western Province, Cameroon on December 13, 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos

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