This is a group photo of everyone that participated in the Bastau Language School Summer Camp session 3 during the summer of 2011 that took place in Tekeli, Kazakhstan. I worked with the director and English teachers of the Bastau language school...
This picture includes volunteers accompanying a group of students on a field trip. The field trip was at Hilagro, a factory that produces pastas, flour, wheat products, etc. It took place in Campo 9, Caaguazu, Paraguay on June 12, 2011.
This photo was taken at Spring Camp in Taroudant. Each Volunteer was responsible for teaching two hour long English classes each day (other activities included: clubs: cooking, dance, etc., sports, cultural night, talent shows, drama,scavenger...
Nine local high schools in the Tiznit province performed skits to promote SIDA awareness at the Dar Shabob (City Center). Groups of 6-10 students came up with a skit addressing different SIDA topics. Topics of the skits included: modes of...
camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
I took this photo during a GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) camp in Piura, Peru during February, 2010. A large component of this girls' leadership weekend was teaching about sexual education. Here, one of the girls from my town, Yocelin, practices...
Isabel works on the parallel bars to improve her balance during occupational therapy. Her peers cheer her on.
About 30-40 children with multiple disabilities lived at the children's section of the Julio Endara M. Hospital near Quito, Ecuador. Some...
Children; Crafts; Host community; Education; Camps and clubs
I took this photo in August of 2011 at an English language summer camp in Ukraine. One of the sessions we had each day was "Camper's Choice" and after seeing some impressive teams flags made by the kids, I thought doing art would be fun for the...
During Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World), our campers were paired with local orphans for a games day. This particular game consisted of a relay where participants had to race towards a plate of flour to out M&Ms with their mouths. Predictably, it...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
Photo taken on August 26, 2011 during Camp GLOW (Girls Leading our World), a leadership training camp geared toward school-age females in Burkina Faso.
health; camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, in July 2007. The girls in the photo are participating in EcoHealth Camp, a week of activities organized by Peace Corps volunteers focused on health, AIDS, and environmental...
This was taken at XingLong Mountain during Dragon Boat Festival near Lanzhou, China. This was the first excursion the Women's Salon (English conversation and empowerment group) took together.
camps and clubs; sports; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
They said she couldn't do it in a mulafa. This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, during EcoHealth Camp 2007; one week in July where 2 girls from each Peace Corps village and their chaperones came together for sports,...
This photo was taken on March, 2010 in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during a camp for young girls. The camp used soccer as a tool to educate girls on HIV/AIDS. The photo shows Peace Corps volunteer, Brandon Perkins, and Burkinabe counterpart, leading a...
This photo was taken on in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during HIV/AIDS education camp for girls. The camp, organized by four volunteers, used soccer as a means to educate girls from around Burkina Faso on HIV/AIDS. This photo shows a...
This photo was taken in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during an HIV/AIDS educational camp for girls. The camp, organized by 4 volunteers, brought girls from all over Burkina Faso to learn about HIV/AIDS through soccer. Many of the girls...
During a Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp in September 2011, Volunteer Allison provides pointers about friendship bracelet-making to a camper. In addition to the friendship bracelet activity, the camp included workshops on citizen participation,...