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...
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...
Each week at the local dispensary we have maternal and child health day where, moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations, and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day, where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
Aicha Boulmahuahib was the midwife at the local hospital at Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco where I lived for 2 years. The day I met her, we automatically started developing health workshops for women in the community. Also, I assisted her on...
Maternal and child health; Health; Terrain; Host community
I took this picture in my site, Santa Barbara, Huehuetenango, which is a rural Mayan community in the western highlands of Guatemala Its a picture of a nurse I worked with getting ready to vaccinate a baby.
November 29, 2010. A mother holds tight as her baby receives an MMR vaccination during a campaign. You can see the nurse's hands. Many children came to the campaign with incomplete vaccination records.
While serving in Zambia, I worked very closely with my clinic. Every friday I would spend all day weighing children under 5, so that the clinic could chart health growth and stop malnutrition.
I am teaching nutrition - breastfeeding and weaning - to women and children in Bossangoa, Central African Rep., 1981, speaking in the Gbeya language. These lessons were done twice weekly.
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...