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- Women's Association Explaining How to Prevent HIV Transmission to Peers
- HIV/AIDS; Maternal and child health
- Members of my women's association explained to mothers how to talk with their children about preventing HIV transmission, destigmatizing seropositivity, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The group of 25 women met to discuss how to teach...
- Volunteer Photos
- Mother and Child
- Maternal and child health
- A mother is situating her child on her back. The photo was taken on the way to Morandava, Madagascar in 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification, Fiscal Year 2007
- Congress; Budget
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification from fiscal year 2007.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification, Fiscal Year 2008
- Congress; Budget
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification from fiscal year 2008.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Factbook and Directory, 1968
- Directories
- Full-text of the 1968 Peace Corps Factbook and Directory. Includes brief descriptions of the Peace Corps programs in exsitence at the time.
- Brochures
- Way of Life
- Maternal and child health
- Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia 2009 A woman carries a baby on her back while her brother looks on.
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Women in Contrast
- Maternal and child health
- This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
- Volunteer Photos
- Special education summer camp
- Maternal and child health; Health; Host community; Volunteers
- This is a photo of me doing some stretching exercises with a child with cerebral palsy during a summer camp for children with disabilities that me and my host mother held in my site. This was work that was done through the parent support group that...
- Volunteer Photos
- Baby Girl Gets A Bath
- Maternal and child health; Water and sanitation
- I took this picture of my friend Mary giving her baby, Dana (whom she named after me) a bath. This picture was taken in 2006 in the compound of the apartment building where I lived in Old Tafo, Ghana.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Baby's Naming Ceremony
- Children; Ceremonies; Maternal and child health
- I took this photo at the naming ceremony of a baby born to one of the women I worked with in improving pre-natal health practices in the fall of 2007. The ceremony occurred 7 days after the birth of the baby which is the tradition in this village...
- Volunteer Photos
- Beginning My Work as a Health Educator
- Health; Maternal and child health
- Volunteer Stories
- Mi Tocaya
- Host community friends; Maternal and child health
- In Guatemala, a tocaya is someone who shares your name. This woman was one of the leaders of the group of women that we had formed and she took us to the homes when we did our visits. She is from a community called Las Cuevas (3 hours -on foot-...
- Volunteer Photos
- Community Health Worker
- Health; Maternal and child health
- This Volunteer is a community health worker in the rural village of Nengbema. She consults with the women in the village concerning their health problems and needs and advises them on how to take care of these problems. She also advises them on...
- Agency Photos
- Community Health Worker
- Health; Maternal and child health
- This Volunteer is a community health worker in the rural village of Nengbema. She consults with the women in the village concerning their health problems and needs and advises them on how to take care of these problems. She also advises them on...
- Agency Photos
- Working with Family Health Services
- Health; Maternal and child health
- A volunteer works with Family Health Services in Baghlan province in northwestern Afghanistan. Five clinics are operated in the province, and the volunteer spends a day in each a week. April 1973.
- Agency Photos
- Working with Family Health Services
- Health; Maternal and child health
- A volunteer works with Family Health Services in Baghlan province in northwestern Afghanistan. Five clinics are operated in the province, and the volunteer spends a day in each a week. Mothers start coming in their sixth month of pregnancy and...
- Agency Photos
- Working with Family Health Services
- Health; Maternal and child health
- A volunteer works with Family Health Services in Baghlan province in northwestern Afghanistan. Five clinics are operated in the province, and the volunteer spends a day in each a week. Mothers start coming in their sixth month of pregnancy and...
- Agency Photos
- Health Training
- Maternal and child health
- This was recently after arriving at my site; delivering an interactive presentation touching on mother-child health practices. There were rumors of multiple cyclones barreling in off the east coast, but the chances of them reaching our arid and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Fulani Young Women Holding Their Twin Dolls
- Maternal and child health
- The Fulani, or Peuhl, live in villlages and farms of northern and Central Togo. These young women are sedentary, have huts, grow crops, and could potentially attend school whereas other Fulani are completely nomadic. They are holding twin dolls....
- Volunteer Photos
- Baby Weighing at Affem Kabye's "Case de Sante" (Health Hut)
- Maternal and child health
- On a monthly basis, the community health Volunteers who worked at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) would conduct baby weighings using the Salter scale in the photo. We would weigh the children aged 5 and under. This is part of routine growth...
- Volunteer Photos