These are Maasai women who have shifted from their traditional free range cattle grazing practices to horticultural farming after seversl severe draught episodes killed 90% of the Livestock.Using water melting from Mount Kilimanjaro snow now these...
This farmer was taught how to build a fish and raise tilapia by Elizabeth as part of the Peace Corps' Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project. Here he has taken some of his harvest to the town of Isoka, Zambia to sell, tying one kilogram (kg) of...
Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Business Development
I worked with this women's group during my 3rd year extension. They started a a new income generating project that year. They would dye material and then sew them into bags for sale. All their profits went towards sending orphans from surrounding...
HIV/AIDS is a major contributor to the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia. Many of these orphaned children live on the streets in Dessie, Ethiopia, without much support, and chance to live in a home or receive an...
One of my Peace Corps projects included a Capacity Building and Literacy Program. Classes included crafts, sewing, literacy, and computers. This photo shows three students attending their first of many sewing classes. Photo taken in March, 2009.
Business development; Income generation; Training; Food and meals
Construction of a demonstration solar copra dryer, Nukulaelae atoll, January 1982. The solar dryer was constructed by a group of local workers trained by the Volunteer and utilized mainly local materials including chain sawn coconut timber. The...
Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors,
October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City.
Women in the Peace Corps
by Sargent Shriver.