This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
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...
Knight Foundation; Maternal and child health; Health; Education
This Volunteer has been serving as a community development Volunteer in Cameroon since June of 1976. She is responsible for supervising and training female Cameroonians to organize and run women and children’s groups. They learn hygiene,...
Knight Foundation; Maternal and child health; Health; Education
This Volunteer has been serving as a community development Volunteer in Cameroon since June of 1976. She is responsible for supervising and training female Cameroonians to organize and run women and children’s groups. They learn hygiene,...
The Peace Corps staff nurse provides medical support to Volunteers in her region of Sierra Leone. Here she discusses child care with another Volunteer and local mothers. 1968
This Volunteer supervises five maternal child health clinics in the western, southern and eastern provinces of Bo. She visits the clinics primarily to encourage maternal-child health nutrition programs.
This Volunteer is a community health worker in the rural village of Nengbema. She consults with the women in the village concerning their health problems and needs and advises them on how to take care of these problems. She also advises them on...
This Volunteer is a community health worker in the rural village of Nengbema. She consults with the women in the village concerning their health problems and needs and advises them on how to take care of these problems. She also advises them on...
This Volunteer uses pictures she drew and cut out to explain the reasons for “kwashiorkor,” malnutrition in young children, to village women in the town of Bumpe, near Bo, Sierra Leone. She conducts her maternal and child care class, where she...
A volunteer works with Family Health Services in Baghlan province in northwestern Afghanistan. Five clinics are operated in the province, and the volunteer spends a day in each a week. April 1973.
A volunteer works with Family Health Services in Baghlan province in northwestern Afghanistan. Five clinics are operated in the province, and the volunteer spends a day in each a week. Mothers start coming in their sixth month of pregnancy and...
A volunteer works with Family Health Services in Baghlan province in northwestern Afghanistan. Five clinics are operated in the province, and the volunteer spends a day in each a week. Mothers start coming in their sixth month of pregnancy and...