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    • Camp G.L.O.W., Pohnpei 2010

    • Camp G.L.O.W., Pohnpei 2010

    • Girls' education; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Camps and clubs

    • Two PCVs get ready for the start of Camp G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World). FSM Pictured: Amanda (M76) and Kate (M75) June 2010
    • Volunteer 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
    • Camp GLOW Preparations

    • Camp GLOW Preparations

    • 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...
    • Volunteer 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Apple Pie

    • Apple Pie

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

    • This photo was taken of Sarah, an environmental education PCV in Senegal, while she teaches middles school girls how to make apple pie during the food cultural exchange session of our girls' leadership camp July 2011 in Ndioum, Senegal.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lessons

    • Lessons

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

    • This was taken during our 1st annual Camp GLOW in Rwanda. GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) is a leadership, health education and empowerment camp for young women. PCV Kate Hulbert and I had an ambitious plan to create the next Annie Leibovitz. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp GLOW

    • Camp GLOW

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making mosquito repellant

    • Making mosquito repellant

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

    • This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, in July 2007. The girls in the photo are participating in EcoHealth Camp, a week of activities organized by Peace Corps volunteers focused on health, AIDS, and environmental...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stretch

    • Stretch

    • camps and clubs; sports; girls' education

    • This photo was taken on March, 2010 in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during a camp for young girls. The camp used soccer as a tool to educate girls on HIV/AIDS. The photo shows Peace Corps volunteer, Brandon Perkins, and Burkinabe counterpart, leading a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Runner

    • Runner

    • camps and clubs; sports; girls' education

    • This photo was taken on in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during HIV/AIDS education camp for girls. The camp, organized by four volunteers, used soccer as a means to educate girls from around Burkina Faso on HIV/AIDS. This photo shows a...
    • Volunteer Photos

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