Camp GLOW: Girls Leading Our World is an awesome girls' leadership camp that inspires girls to do more and help in their communities. It is not only an inspiring camp for local girls, but for Volunteers as well!
Camp GLOW was started in Kazakhstan 3 years ago. Now, we have 5 running in different cities throughout the country! This year, Camp GLOW changed the lives of 25 local girls and 6 PCVs.
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This is a photo of our group of girls in Chalkar, Kazakhstan. This Camp GLOW was the fourth of four Camp GLOWs that took place throughout Kazakhstan in the summer of 2011. There were 30 participants at the 5 day/6 night sleepaway camp. It was an...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken on our final day of a 6 day girls' empowerment camp that I planned and lead with a fellow PCV in July of 2011. Throughout this camp we discussed topics ranging from healthy relationships, to domestic violence, to journaling and...
teachers and students; Camps and clubs; girls' education
This photo was taken during a PDM workshop in April, 2011 in Chengdu, China. Two students from Sichuan Normal University attended the workshop, and will serve as leaders during the camp. The photo shows two PCVS, and two Chinese students holding...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
Photo taken on August 26, 2011 during Camp GLOW (Girls Leading our World), a leadership training camp geared toward school-age females in Burkina Faso.
During a Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp in September 2011, Volunteer Allison provides pointers about friendship bracelet-making to a camper. In addition to the friendship bracelet activity, the camp included workshops on citizen participation,...
Three Kenyan secondary students (from left: A-Star, Monica, and Emily) attend May 2012 Camp GLOW for 55 secondary female students from Kenya's Eastern and Coast Provinces. The camp focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, stigma reduction, as...
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...