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    • Volunteer Teaches Girls To Become Nurses

    • Volunteer Teaches Girls To Become Nurses

    • Nurses; Education; Health; Girls' education

    • This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Teachs Nursing to Girl Students

    • Volunteer Teachs Nursing to Girl Students

    • Nurses; Education; Girls' education

    • This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her...
    • Agency Photos
    • Girls' Education

    • Girls' Education

    • Girls' education; Health; Teachers and students

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer teaches female hygiene at a commercial school in Ibague, Colombia, to a group of girls of various ages.
    • Agency Photos
    • Rural Community Development

    • Rural Community Development

    • Education; Community development; Health; Girls' education

    • These two Volunteers work in rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteers work with African women from the Ony Babre village as they cut out dress patterns for the women to sew. When the girls...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Teaching Women to Sew

    • Volunteer Teaching Women to Sew

    • Education; Girls' Education; Health; Community development

    • This Volunteer works in the rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches Ony Babre women sewing.
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Teaching Sewing

    • Volunteer Teaching Sewing

    • Education; Girls' education; Health; Community development

    • This Volunteer works in the Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches Ony Babre women sewing.
    • Agency Photos
    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Education; Girls' education

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Andy (TEFL Turkmenistan) seems to have attracted a bevy of beauties to his after-school English Club. Young Turkmen women balance tradition, with long hair and hand-embroidered, long dresses, yet have a sense of fashion that...
    • Staff Photos
    • Anticipation

    • Anticipation

    • Health; Girls' education

    • This photo was taken a few weeks ago at a health fair in Ecuador. My counterpart agency is Plan Internacional, and part of our booth included proper condom use demonstrations. These are students from a local high school that attended the fair,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students' First Visit to the Ocean in Jamaica

    • Students' First Visit to the Ocean in Jamaica

    • Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment

    • I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Club de Muchachas

    • Club de Muchachas

    • Girls' education; Health; Education

    • This is my girl's club, Club de Muchachas, in El Limon, Nicaragua, in Nueva Segovia close to the Honduran border. This area later became known as "Contra country" after the revolution. These girls took up leadership roles in their community, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Namibian High Schoolers at Camp

    • Namibian High Schoolers at Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Girls' education; Teachers and students

    • Grade 11 girls from Rehoboth (Namibia) High School work as a team to transport a tire and all team members across an obstacles without touching the ground. Students were attending a week-long leadership camp at Aus, Namibia. The enrichment camp...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Eighth Grade Blues

    • The Eighth Grade Blues

    • Teachers and students; Girls' education

    • Several of my students in the village of Tougouri, Burkina Faso are "hanging out" in front of their classroom - no electricity and no water. It is an amazing feat that there are three girls in the picture as only about 10% of my students were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Maratou's Dream

    • Maratou's Dream

    • Life skills; Girls' education; Camps and clubs

    • In this photo, Maratou creates her dream. During the summer of 2009, I co-facilitated a girl’s camp in Komteaga, Burkina Faso. We led the participants through nutrition, sexual education, good hygiene and goal-setting programs. For many of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga Masters

    • Yoga Masters

    • Youth Development; Girls' Education

    • Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. Part of our aim is empowerment through health and ownership of one's body. Every Wednesday after school, anywhere from 15-25...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Secondary school learner Patricia shows off her primary artistic tool while making hand-print t-shirts at a Camp GLOW in Graskop, South Africa on February 9, 2011. The week-long camp consisted of sessions on life skills, girls empowerment and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos

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