Teachers and Students; Education; Girls' education
My students and I pose for a picture during break time at my school in Azerbaijan. These students are sisters. One is in eight grade and the other is in nine grade.
These girls were my students at the Dar Chebeb (Youth House) in Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco. I would teach them Spanish and English and help them on their french. We established weekend hours to play, learn about health and talk about what...
Many of the men in my village leave to find work in Italy. They are gone for years at a time while the women and girls have to make ends meet in village, waiting for money to be sent over. This is a photo of three girls from my village in...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This picture was taken in July of 2011 in Kyrgyz Republic. This picture was taken at the closing ceremony of a Leadership Camp (joint GLOW and TOBE) developed and conducted by Volunteers. Peace Corps Volunteer Jennifer is receiving an award given...