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- Volunteer Helps Improve Irrigation Systems
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This Volunteer is a farm advisor to small farmers and local cooperatives near Rio Dario. He has helped them make for expanding their irrigation system, visits their fields and advises on planting and control of irrigated fields and inspects the... - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Feeding Children
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This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health as a social welfare worker, where she bathes and feeds children at a day care center for malnourished children. - Agency Photos
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This Volunteer is a community development social worker with the FUNDE- Savings & Loan Cooperative program where she surveys all water resources in order to improve supply and guarantee source year- found for town. Here she talks with community... - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Works with Women to Sew Carpets
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This Volunteer is an artisan advisor and crafts teacher with Cooperative Chiscolapa in a new project to raise sisal (“kaboya”) for twinning and sewing into artful carpets using pre-Columbia Nicaraguan designs. Here the Volunteer works with... - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Rides Horse From Village to Village
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Rural sites -
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles... - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Explains Electrification to Villagers
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This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification cooperative. Here he is shown explaining electrification to a few villagers collected on the main road near Tonala. - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Riding Horse From Village to Village
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This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles... - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Teaches About the Importance Of Forest Preservation
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Agriculture; Education -
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource. - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Teaches Children about Forests
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Forestry; Education; Children -
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource. - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Talking to Villagers about Improvements of Sanitation
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Health; Construction; Water and sanitation -
CoThis Volunteer is a technical advisor to small farmers and grain research expert. He meets up with a representative of the Ministry of Health, and heads of villages in a valley near La Trinidad to discuss improvement of sanitation at village... - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Walking Home With New Power Saw
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A carpenter on his way home from work carrying his new power saw that he is now able to use since the installation of electricity by the Peace Corps’ Rural Electrification program. - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Teaches Girls To Become Nurses
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Nurses; Education; Health; Girls' education -
This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her... - Agency Photos
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- Villagers Hold A Meeting Outside A Local Bank
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Villagers from Tisma hold a meeting outside the local bank just after sunset. As a result of the Rural Electrification program they have electricity. - Agency Photos
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- Volunteers Look at Map of Uncovered Area
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These two Volunteers work with the Rural Electrification program. Here the Volunteers are shown holding a survey map and talking about an area that they have yet to cover. - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Teachs Nursing to Girl Students
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Nurses; Education; Girls' education -
This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her... - Agency Photos
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- Volunteer Surveys Forest
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Agriculture; Forestry -
This Volunteer is a forest resources expert under the Ministry of Agriculture. He is responsible for conducting surveys of forests in order to measure and classify trees for planning reforestation projects in the future. - Agency Photos
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- Corn Meal
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Agriculture; Volunteers - Agency Photos
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- One for the Team
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Games; Host Community Friends; Youth; Volunteers -
A Volunteer poses with his youth soccer team after a game. - Agency Photos
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- House Visit
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A Volunteer makes a house visit to talk with a few local community members. - Agency Photos
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- Students and the Sea Turtle
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Education; Teachers and students; Environment -
Students gather around a sea turtle while a Volunteer takes measurements. - Agency Photos
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