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.
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...
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...
This photo was taken in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during an HIV/AIDS educational camp for girls. The camp, organized by 4 volunteers, brought girls from all over Burkina Faso to learn about HIV/AIDS through soccer. Many of the girls...
In Burkina Faso, my girl's soccer team practiced giving presentations on correct condom usage together before demonstrating their knowledge to the police officers of our community. As part of learning healthy living through sport, condom usage to...
This photo was taken in September, 2005 in Same, East Timor. My wife and I and a Portuguese language teacher helped train a group of girls who asked us for their help to get a girls soccer team together. This was an important project because the...
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; Youth; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
I took this photo during the summer camp that I organized and led during the summer between my two years of service. I invited girls from my 8th and 9th grade classes to participate in a week-long camp that consisted of math and science review,...