Business development; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture
This is a picture of some of the 25 women who are learning to to make vinegar, wine vinegar, and herb-infused vinegar. The man in the picture is the agricultural agent who is teaching them. They come every week from all over the valley. They hope...
Host community friends; Traditional dress; Children
While backpacking around the village of Illela, where I lived, I met a Tuareg extended family living in the wadi. We became good friends, and I frequently spent my Sunday's with them, playing with the children, telling stories, and drinking camel's...
This photo was taken in 2007 in the town of Corrales, northern Peru . The youth pictured are members of an elementary school soccer team who compete in the Campeonato Mundialito (Little World Championship), a world cup-inspired tournament which...
On the left, the boys show the area just before groundbreaking on one of four vocational training buildings. On the right, one of the first photos of the new shops ready to be filled with tools, equipment, and young minds and hands.
July 24th, 2011 - Volunteer Brian Bartley shakes hands with a local football team competing in the North Bank region's first annual Know Your Status Football Tournament. Organized by three environment Volunteers, and one health Volunteer, the Know...
Volunteer Rhoda is teaching how to make baby food to a group of fishermen's wives neighbors. Babies die at rate of 50% by the age of 5 from malnutrition. 1962, Manta, Ecuador
During Camp Fortuna in Ukraine, Volunteer Maggie Hankamp teaches a yoga pose, known as The Camel, to interested students aged from 6 to 17. August 12, 2010.
This picture was taken right outside the health clinic where I teach women health lessons. Some of the children were waiting on their mom while she talked to the nurse and listened to one of my health lessons.
Aicha Boulmahuahib was the midwife at the local hospital at Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco where I lived for 2 years. The day I met her, we automatically started developing health workshops for women in the community. Also, I assisted her on...
On October 15, 2010, Global Handwashing Day, I held a demonstration on how to use an old plastic bottle to wash your hands. The surrounding children are primary school students in the Educational Institution Fe y Alegria #70. The children continued...
A bunch of kids from school were watching the Moroccan men (all volunteers) work on the elementary's school's new bathroom (June 2011) in Elkassaba El Khir, Tata, Morocco.
Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation
This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead the health workers from the Hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...
Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead, the health workers from the hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...