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    • Women in the Peace Corps: you can't send a girl there!

    • Women in the Peace Corps: you can't send a girl there!

    • Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Women in Peace Corps

    • Full text of a brochure highlighting the unique challenges faced by women in the early years of the Peace Corps, as well as their many accomplishments around the world. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from...
    • Brochures
    • Working at the Home

    • Working at the Home

    • Knight Foundation; Elders; Hospitals; Health

    • This Volunteer, a nurse, is supervisor of the home, which is run by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Shown visiting an elderly lady, she supervises a staff of 5 staff nurses, 14 nursing assistants and 8 sweepers (janitors) who work around...
    • Agency Photos
    • Elder Care

    • Elder Care

    • Knight Foundation; Elders; Health

    • This Volunteer visit with an elderly resident of the Issa Home. With the help of another Volunteer, she runs the home and cares for the handicapped and elderly residents. In addition to her work at the home, she’s assisting the Ministry of...
    • Agency Photos
    • Plastering Mole Pots

    • Plastering Mole Pots

    • food and meals; elders

    • Mole is a traditional Mexican sauce made from 20-30 ingredients, including chili and other peppers, nuts, seeds, fruits, spices, herbs, and various other items (often chocolate, tomatoes, etc). The recipe and process used by the woman in this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cooking Mole

    • Cooking Mole

    • food and meals; elders

    • Mole is a traditional Mexican sauce made from 20-30 ingredients, including chili and other peppers, nuts, seeds, fruits, spices, herbs, and various other items (often chocolate, tomatoes, etc). The recipe and process used by the women in this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mole Operations

    • Mole Operations

    • food and meals; elders

    • Mole is a traditional Mexican sauce made from 20-30 ingredients, including chili and other peppers, nuts, seeds, fruits, spices, herbs, and various other items (often chocolate, tomatoes, etc). The recipe and process used by the women in this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family Time in the Milpa

    • Family Time in the Milpa

    • food and meals; elders

    • The people seen here are part of large farming family from a small pueblito in Mexico. They go out together to their milpa in the country every Sunday to do whatever is needed to raise maize, peppers, beans, squash, and marigolds (for religious...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bala

    • Bala

    • Host families; Elders

    • Samabogo, Mali taken in January 2009. This is a picture of Bala (an old animist shaman, myself, and my host dad). My host dad and I rode three miles into the bush to visit Bala. When we arrived he had a new green car to show us. He also had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandmother in Lesotho

    • Grandmother in Lesotho

    • Host families; Elders; Housing

    • My host family Grandmother. Too old to work in the fields, she spends most days sitting against the stone wall of her hut absorbing the heat of the stones. She patiently sorts grain and beans, watches the goings-on of the village and sends all her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Formal Family Portrait

    • Formal Family Portrait

    • Host community; Housing; Elders; Traditional dress

    • A migratory farming family at their fall location. The three generation family lives together in this ger which included a wood stove, a solar panel for power, and a television that got one channel which brought them a favorite spectator sport -...
    • Staff Photos
    • Tea and Stories

    • Tea and Stories

    • Elders; Host community friends

    • This is a photo of me with my neighbor, Maria Yegorovna. I would visit her often to drink tea and hear her stories about life as a teenager working in the coal mines of Karaganda during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). She didn't have...
    • Volunteer Photos

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