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    • Preparing the Garden for Planting

    • Preparing the Garden for Planting

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture

    • At risk women in Finote Selam, Ethiopia are tilling and watering the garden in preparation for planting. They are given two years of communal training in gardening and then given their own plot to raise their own food.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tenderness from a Mentally Ill Street Girl

    • Tenderness from a Mentally Ill Street Girl

    • Health; Volunteers; host community

    • A mentally ill street person was provided treatment by the Peace Corps volunteer in Finote Selam. The community did not believe mentally ill people could be treated. The success from treating this girl led the community to treat more than 30...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taking Flight

    • Taking Flight

    • Transportation; Environment

    • This photo was taken in the town of Teppi, in Ilubabor Province of Ethiopia in 1974. At my school there had been a big grassy knoll that separated the football field from the local airstrip. During an intensive clean up day at the school we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Loret Miller Ruppe in Mauritania

    • Loret Miller Ruppe in Mauritania

    • Peace Corps Directors

    • This photo was taken circa 1980, when Peace Corps Director Loret Miller Ruppe came to visit in Mauritania. Pictured in the photo are Loret, David Scotton, Dick Wall and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cow Pie Girl

    • Cow Pie Girl

    • Children; HIV/AIDS

    • A daughter of an HIV positive woman was helping collect manure for drying to be used for heating. This is in Ateya, Ethiopia during my pre-service training.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing The Land for Planting

    • Preparing The Land for Planting

    • HIV/AIDS; Gardens

    • These women are some of the vulnerable women being given training in urban gardening to help them improve their nutrition and teach them to raise their own gardens. Many of these women are HIV positive. This photo was taken in Ethiopia in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morning Plowing

    • Morning Plowing

    • HIV/AIDS; Gardens; Agriculture

    • This man was plowing the garden for the women to complete the hoeing and preparation for planting. Ethiopia, April 2011
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Resource Mapping

    • Community Resource Mapping
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    • I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS-focused 8 day home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. In the photo, two home-based caregivers are drawing a map of all the HIV/AIDS related resources in their community, such as health posts, NGOs,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home-based Care Training Graduation

    • Home-based Care Training Graduation
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    • I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Homebased Care Project Potato Garden

    • Homebased Care Project Potato Garden

    • Agriculture; Nutrition

    • I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Land

    • Preparing the Land

    • HIV/AIDS

    • These at-risk women, most HIV positive, are being trained to grow their own vegetables to improve their nourishment and possible provide income. Finote Selam, Etthiopia April 2011
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hotel Haik in Downtown Haik City

    • Hotel Haik in Downtown Haik City

    • Host community; Food and meals

    • Hotel Haik was the town center, as it provided a locale for news, entertainment and gatherings. Ethiopians love to spend their free time with friends and family, drinking coffee and Hotel Haik provided that venue. Lights were out, as the town had...
    • Volunteer Photos

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