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    • Teaching Nutrition in the Village

    • Teaching Nutrition in the Village

    • Teachers and students; Maternal and child health

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mi Tocaya

    • 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
    • Health Training

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Hausa Woman and Child

    • Hausa Woman and Child

    • Children; Maternal and child health; Traditional dress; Work

    • Taken at the dispensary in Illela, Niger, 1976. I worked with the midwife at the health center to teach pregnant women how to care for themselves, and worked with those who had just given birth, like this young Hausa woman. We taught health...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fulani Young Women Holding Their Twin Dolls

    • 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
    • Way of Life

    • 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
    • Under 5 Clinic

    • Under 5 Clinic

    • Maternal and child health

    • 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.
    • 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
    • Health Education- Why We Weigh Babies

    • Health Education- Why We Weigh Babies

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Mother and Child

    • Mother and Child

    • Maternal and child health

    • Once a month, I traveled to Nadjoubi with the medical assistant from the Tchamba hospital to give vaccines. I helped with his record keeping and answered basic health questions from the mothers. We also brought a scale to weigh babies and monitor...
    • 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

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