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    • PECHEEK

    • PECHEEK

    • celebrations

    • This photo is taken from a 3 day long health related camp a volunteer, Dara Lipton (seen in background wearing Angel wings) organized around Halloween. She used her fellow Volunteers and the American holiday to promote the 1st and 2nd Goals of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Puru Blaka

    • Puru Blaka

    • funerals; traditional dress

    • This is an Ingi Puru Blaka, a traditional ceremony taking place in my village, Redi Doti, in Resortt Caroline, Para District, Suriname. The idea behind this ceremony is that while a family is in mourning following the death of a loved one, they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rice Harvest

    • Rice Harvest

    • Agriculture

    • I took this photo in January of 2009 in Fiadanana, Madagascar. The woman all the way to the right in this picture owned many of the rice fields in this area and let me use this plot to experiment with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Slippery Pole

    • Slippery Pole

    • Children; Celebrations; Games

    • I took this photo on Sunday 8/7/2011 at my neighbors quince anos celebration. My husband and I attended the ceremony of the quincinera and following the service, the delicious lunch games for the children commenced. After a rousing and slightly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taras Shevchenko Monument

    • Taras Shevchenko Monument

    • Statues and monuments

    • This is a photo of two Volunteers on an outing around Chernigiv, Ukraine during their three months of in country training. The statue is of Taras Shevchenko, a revered artist and writer, who is a symbol of Ukrainian freedom and independence.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Testing Out a Fuel Efficient Cookstove

    • Testing Out a Fuel Efficient Cookstove

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Food and meals

    • I took this photo of the women's group (and children) in my village of Fiadanana, Madagascar in May 2008. I had inherited a fuel efficient cookstove project from the previous volunteer. The women and I had recently completed this cookstove and we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Joy of Being a Woman

    • The Joy of Being a Woman

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women's movement

    • This photo was taken on National Mozambican Women's Day, April 7th, 2010. This is a day where all women are commemorated in Mozambique, which is important in Mozambique's struggle to gain gender equality. Pictured is a young woman teacher trainee...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Threshing Rice

    • Threshing Rice

    • Agriculture; Host families

    • My host sister took this photo of my other host sister Christina, her son Sitraka and myself. I was training as an Environment Volunteer in Mahitsitady, Madagascar in March of 2008. Rice is the staple food crop for the Malagasy so harvest time is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Walking to the Rice Field

    • Walking to the Rice Field

    • Agriculture; Host families

    • I took this photo shortly after arriving at my site in Fiadanana, Madagascar in May of 2008. This picture shows three of my neighbors (Andrea, her mother Helen and her sister in law Elva) crossing a river to get to their rice field. This day was...
    • Volunteer Photos

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