This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
This Peace Corps Volunteer Volunteer is working with a secondary project as she weighs a baby to monitor growth during a baby weighing clinic at the Centre des Affairs Sociale in Sanankoroba. Although she mainly works with wood stoves, she mainly...
Knight Foundation; Maternal and child health; Health; Education
This Volunteer has been serving as a community development Volunteer in Cameroon since June of 1976. She is responsible for supervising and training female Cameroonians to organize and run women and children’s groups. They learn hygiene,...
Knight Foundation; Maternal and child health; Health; Education
This Volunteer has been serving as a community development Volunteer in Cameroon since June of 1976. She is responsible for supervising and training female Cameroonians to organize and run women and children’s groups. They learn hygiene,...
The Peace Corps staff nurse provides medical support to Volunteers in her region of Sierra Leone. Here she discusses child care with another Volunteer and local mothers. 1968
This Volunteer supervises five maternal child health clinics in the western, southern and eastern provinces of Bo. She visits the clinics primarily to encourage maternal-child health nutrition programs.
This Volunteer uses pictures she drew and cut out to explain the reasons for “kwashiorkor,” malnutrition in young children, to village women in the town of Bumpe, near Bo, Sierra Leone. She conducts her maternal and child care class, where she...
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.
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.