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    • Preparing the Garden for Planting

    • Preparing the Garden for Planting

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture

    • At risk women in Finote Selam, Ethiopia are tilling and watering the garden in preparation for planting. They are given two years of communal training in gardening and then given their own plot to raise their own food.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tenderness from a Mentally Ill Street Girl

    • Tenderness from a Mentally Ill Street Girl

    • Health; Volunteers; host community

    • A mentally ill street person was provided treatment by the Peace Corps volunteer in Finote Selam. The community did not believe mentally ill people could be treated. The success from treating this girl led the community to treat more than 30...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Orphans Smiling

    • Orphans Smiling

    • Games; Children; Volunteers

    • This was taken in August of 2011. I visited an orphanage in Marsabit, Kenya with some volunteers from Spain. The kids were so happy to have hugs and play games and braid our hair. These are two little girls painfully braiding one woman's hair.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • In a Valley on Mt. Kenya

    • In a Valley on Mt. Kenya

    • Terrain; Volunteers

    • I climb Mt. Kenya in August of 2011 with six fellow Volunteers. The views were spectacular and we did a lot of standing around with our mouths open in awe. This is a friend, Carlyn, doing just that.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Traditional dress; Children

    • This little girl is one of my neighbors and she is the loudest little girl. She will see me coming from a mile away and scream my name as loud as she can before running over and chatting non-stop in the local language, Kiborana. On this day in June...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Buying Tire Shoes

    • Buying Tire Shoes

    • Markets; Volunteers; Artisans

    • This photo was taken in November of 2011 in Kenya. A fellow Volunteer is buying shoes made out of old tires from a man in the market.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Train Across Kenya

    • Train Across Kenya

    • Transportation; Volunteers

    • This photo was taken on August 6th, 2011. It was my birthday and me and a group of other Volunteers were heading from Nairobi to Mombasa on a night train. We all woke up at dawn to hang out the windows and watch the landscape roll by.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children in a Manyatta

    • Children in a Manyatta

    • Traditional dress; Children; housing

    • Manyattas are small clusters of thatch and mud homes that are out in the desert outside Marsabit, Kenya. This photo, taken in July of 2011, shows a few children who are curious about me waiting to greet me as I walk home from school.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remember

    • Remember

    • Children; Celebrations; Crafts; September 11, 2001

    • This photo was taken at my school in South Africa. This is my 5th grade technology class where we were learning about structures. We discussed how structures are created and different types. I taught them about skyscrapers and in lieu of the 10th...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cow Pie Girl

    • Cow Pie Girl

    • Children; HIV/AIDS

    • A daughter of an HIV positive woman was helping collect manure for drying to be used for heating. This is in Ateya, Ethiopia during my pre-service training.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing The Land for Planting

    • Preparing The Land for Planting

    • HIV/AIDS; Gardens

    • These women are some of the vulnerable women being given training in urban gardening to help them improve their nutrition and teach them to raise their own gardens. Many of these women are HIV positive. This photo was taken in Ethiopia in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morning Plowing

    • Morning Plowing

    • HIV/AIDS; Gardens; Agriculture

    • This man was plowing the garden for the women to complete the hoeing and preparation for planting. Ethiopia, April 2011
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Land

    • Preparing the Land

    • HIV/AIDS

    • These at-risk women, most HIV positive, are being trained to grow their own vegetables to improve their nourishment and possible provide income. Finote Selam, Etthiopia April 2011
    • Volunteer Photos

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