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    • Spinning Threads

    • Spinning Threads

    • Children; Life skills

    • Spinning the thread is one of the many steps in the process of making corte, the traditional wrap worn by indigenous women of Guatemala. Kids of families start working at a young age in order to help the family in their overall attempt to survive...
    • Sustainability

    • Sustainability

    • Life skills; Technology

    • This photo was taken at one of my sewing workshops in Fiji, South Pacific. I teach sewing skills that include repairing and maintaining sewing machines. My goal is that the participants know how to fix their only machines. In this photo- this...
    • Sustainability

    • Sustainability

    • Life skills; Technology

    • I took this photo-during one of my sewing workshops in Nagado, Fiji in January, 2011. The most important part of the workshop is to show the villagers how to repair their own machines. This elderly woman is repairing her own sewing machine. Ana,...
    • Tailoring with Hope

    • Tailoring with Hope

    • Life skills

    • I took this photo during the second month of tailoring classes for local women infected with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Many of these women have not completed primary school and are using their new technical skills to generate income and empower...
    • To the Table

    • To the Table

    • Life skills

    • My Peace Corps friend, Adam Szabunio, took this photo during my Sewing Workshop; in his Fijian village, Korokula Village,October 2011.Almost everything in Fiji is done on the floor...so(my 60 year old hips) really appreciated the tables that the...
    • Wash Day

    • Wash Day

    • Life skills

    • The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site in Jawand, Afghanistan (1972). Villagers maintained their daily chores during the food distributions.
    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills

    • I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.

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