This is a photo of my 5th grade choir. Their debut performance was at the graduation ceremony for the 11th graders in May 2011. They did a fantastic job!
I took this photo in February of 2010, during tea with my host family in Kazakhstan. The woman I knew only as "Azhe" or "Grandmother" and she is the great-grandmother of the baby, Rachman, who was about 7 months old at the time. We had tea every...
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...
This year in Karaganda, Kazakhstan 80 local girls and 10 Volunteers shared a life changing experience. For one week at an overnight camp secluded by a beautiful national park, girls shared experiences and knowledge and at the end everyone was in...
Camp GLOW: Girls Leading Our World is an awesome girls' leadership camp that inspires girls to do more and help in their communities. It is not only an inspiring camp for local girls, but for Volunteers as well!
Camp GLOW was started in Kazakhstan 3 years ago. Now, we have 5 running in different cities throughout the country! This year, Camp GLOW changed the lives of 25 local girls and 6 PCVs.
My students loved to play bingo as a review activity during English lessons. Here, third grader Nursultanbek chooses and reads a letter of the alphabet while the rest of the students find it on their bingo cards. May 2011, Saumalkol Kazakh...
Kazakhstan has many beautiful things. One that stands out in particular are the costumes that are traditionally worn. Here is a picture of Kazakhstani National Hats that are traditionally worn while girls are dancing. They're beautifully...
Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends
Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds...