Anniversaries; Secondary projects; Pre-service Training (PST)
Mozambique 16 Peace Corps Trainees (PCT) Morgan, Kelly and Allison gave a helping hand to their training community on June 12th, 2011 by cleaning up the local hospital. PCT homestay families also participated in the event. The event was planned by...
A fellow Volunteer captured a civil war reenactment performed by community war veterans in 2010. The performace was part of bigger showcase for the visit of Armando Guebuza, the current Mozambican president. The Mozambican civil war started in 1977...
Teachers and students; Schools; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
I am giving a quick introduction to the computer and internet for my Mozambican secondary school students who participated in a empowerment through arts and media summer workshop in 2009.
Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); International Women's Day; Crafts
A Volunteer is teaching Mozambican female youth the art of making earrings out of local resources at the annual REDES conference. The REDES program (Rapargas Em Desenvolvimento E Saude - Girls in Development and Health) was started by Mozambique...
Sirakoro, Mali, Summer 2007. Afternoons in Sirakoro, were often spent visiting with friends and neighbors talking and drinking tea. This is a group of my neighbors kids that came by my house every day.
This is a photograph of myself, my host father (on the left), and the village chief on the right. The village chief was 86 years old, almost twice the life expectancy in Mali. I was the first Peace Corps volunteer in the village, and he was...
Sports; International Women's Day; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
I took this picture on International Women's Day in 2007. Each year on this day, the women in my village in Mali play a soccer game. We played unmarried women versus married women.