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    • Community Health Worker

    • 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

    • 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
    • Maternal and Child Care Class

    • Maternal and Child Care Class

    • Maternal and child health

    • 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...
    • Agency Photos
    • Working with Family Health Services

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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
    • A Baby's Naming Ceremony

    • 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
    • Baby Girl Gets A Bath

    • 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
    • Baby Weighing

    • Baby Weighing

    • Maternal and child health

    • Henou (Patrice) is a community health Volunteer. On a monthly basis, weather permitting (in other words, it wasn't raining), we would bike to the villages & farms surrounding Affem Kabye and weigh the children aged 5 and under. This is part of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baby Weighing

    • Baby Weighing

    • Maternal and child health

    • Melissa Kadzik is weighing a baby at a monthly baby weighing and education session for mothers in Toweta Benin. January 2008. Babies are weighed hanging from the scale. Most babies were more scared of the white girl then hanging from the scale.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baby's Bath Time

    • Baby's Bath Time

    • Water and sanitation; Maternal and child health

    • Bath time. This is how Kabye village women give their baby a bath. Lots of water and soap. The babies normally scream.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bathtime

    • Bathtime

    • Water and sanitation; Maternal and child health

    • A couple months after assisting the Queen Mother and Traditional Birthing Attendant in helping my best friend Zhilia give birth to her daughter Zulayha, I took this photo of bathtime in their compound right before dinner. Photo taken in Kpendua,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • C-section

    • C-section

    • Medicine; Maternal and child health

    • This was taken in the operating room of the Nsanje District Hospital in 1982 during a c-section. I was a PCV doctor and worked as the District Medical Officeer of Nsanje District in Malawi. This is one of many operations I performed during my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Casa materna

    • Casa materna

    • Maternal and child health; Health; Host community

    • July 21 2008. This photo was taken just after I finished a health talk at the "casa materna" in the town of Los Chiles, Rio San Juan. A casa materna or "community-based birthing home" is a house maintained by the Ministry of Health or another...
    • Volunteer Photos

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