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    • 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
    • Litchi Season!

    • Litchi Season!

    • Agriculture; Host community friends

    • I took this photo during litchi harvest time in November in Fiadanana, Madagascar. It shows my friends Andrea and Elva separating the fruit form the branch so that they could be packed in baskets and sold to drivers that would bring them to the...
    • 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
    • AIDS Bike Tour

    • AIDS Bike Tour

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a banner from an AIDS awareness festival, one of nine AIDS education and prevention events that a group of Madagascar PCVs organized and ran with the help of the PSI cinemobile during a week-long bicycle tour in the highlands of Madagascar...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Red Ribbon Kid

    • Red Ribbon Kid

    • HIV/AIDS; Children

    • This Malagasy child was very enthusiastic about helping us Peace Corps Volunteers celebrate our AIDS festival at the community-based training site in the highlands of Madagascar. The festival was an education and awareness-raising activity held...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Running Towards the Future

    • Running Towards the Future

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A woman runs towards a trash can to dispose of a "used" condom in a race against fellow villagers. By educating rural Malagasy on HIV/AIDS prevention, Peace Corps Volunteers hope to reduce transmission rates and increase awareness. In 2010,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Host Mother

    • My Host Mother

    • Host families

    • This is a picture of me and my host mother and was taken around February 2007 in Alarobia, Madagascar. About half way through my Peace Corps service I went back to my pre-service training site to visit my host-stay family. We are standing outside...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stuck in the Mud

    • Stuck in the Mud

    • Transportation; Terrain

    • This picture was taken toward the end of 2006 outside of my village of Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar. My village was mostly a "hike site", meaning that the only way to get in was to hike 7 miles up and over a mountain (about a 2 hour strenous...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Malagasy School Children

    • Malagasy School Children

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This picture was taken towards the end of 2006 and depicts some Malagasy school children in Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar. They are lining up after recess, and before classes begin again.
    • Volunteer Photos

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