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    • Obama Mama

    • Obama Mama
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    • This picture was taken in the village of Solulu in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010. I saw this woman in market, so I'm not sure of her name but I loved the Obama shirt. Most Nigerien's LOVED Obama. There were tons of things for sale with his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Plowing

    • Plowing

    • Animals; Transportation

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in June 2010. I am helping plow the field for our Farmer's Field School. The man pushing the plow is Sai'du Haruna and the girl is his daughter Aisha Sai'du. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nana Farida's Sad Face

    • Nana Farida's Sad Face

    • Children

    • This is a picture of a young girl named Nana Farida. She is benig carried tied to her mother's back and she is unhappy about it. This was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in early 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laure and Faiza

    • Laure and Faiza

    • Children

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010. The baby in the swing is named Laure Garba, and her older sister, who is keeping an eye on her, is named Faiza Garba. Laure is her mother's 13th child. Women...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grammie!

    • Grammie!

    • Children; Host community friends

    • This is a picture of Halima Abdou with her grand child. The picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Storing the Harvest

    • Storing the Harvest

    • Food and meals

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. This is a picture of 4 brothers and their friend storing the millet harvest in their traditional grain bank. On the ground from left to right are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hassana and Zina

    • Hassana and Zina

    • Food and meals; Cooking;Host community friends

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in September 2010. The woman on the left is Hassana Garba who taught me how to pound and winnow my own millet. The other woman is Zina Hashimu, Hassana's...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laughter at Lunch

    • Laughter at Lunch

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. These are three of my closest neighbors and friends eating tup (boiled millet mush) with okra sauce. From left to right are Zali Sanushi with her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Faiza and Her Date

    • Faiza and Her Date

    • Gardens; Children

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. This is Faiza Lowali. She found a date pit and brought it to our house and asked if she could plant it in our tree nurserie. We let her and it grew...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sa'adiya Writing

    • Sa'adiya Writing

    • Host community friends

    • This is a picture of a young woman named Sa'adiya. It was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010. Sa'adiya is 14 years old in this picture. She was too old to go to the children's school (which only opened the year...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Little Husband

    • My Little Husband

    • Host community friends; Children

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. In this picture is Maimena Hassan and her son Abass, wearing my sunglasses. My husband's local name was Abass. In the Hausa culture a woman does not...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dad with Mojitu

    • Dad with Mojitu

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Host families

    • My parents and niece came to visit me while I was serving in Niger. We went to visit the family that had hosted me while I was in pre-service training. This is a picture of my father (M. Ian Jenness) with my host mother's grandson (Mojitu) in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tabaski Prayer

    • Tabaski Prayer

    • Religion

    • This is a photo of the communal prayer during the celebration of Tabaski in 2009. It was taken outside the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger. Though there are small mosques in the village, there was no single mosque large enough to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Henna

    • Henna

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. These are my feet and the baby feet of Laure Garba. We both got traditional henna done to our feet for the Tabaski festival.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Amara Going to the Well

    • Amara Going to the Well

    • Water and sanitation; Counterparts

    • This is a picture of my counterpart, Amara, outside of the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in early 2010. The village of Tsanwa has one foot pump that is 70m deep and two wells to meet their water needs. One of the wells has very...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Market Storm

    • Market Storm

    • Agriculture; Host community; Transportation

    • This image was taken as I rushed home during my Monday market, hoping to avoid the rains. During the rainy season in my village in Togo every Monday market turned into a muddy scene as rain washed out the stalls in the afternoon. This day the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home Sweet Africa

    • Home Sweet Africa

    • art

    • Upon completion of my service in Togo, I decided to take Peace Corps up on that third goal and put together an exhibit highlighting some moments of my time in the Peace Corps. The exhibit was titiled "Home Sweet Africa" and displayed photos and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Voila!

    • Voila!

    • artisans; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); business development

    • I met Chantal in a neighboring village and due to our shared connection in the arts, I focused some of my work as a small business development PCV on promoting her and her craft. When I met her she only dyed and sold the printed batik cloth she...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creative Center Grand Opening

    • Creative Center Grand Opening

    • celebrations; artisans

    • To mark the grand opening of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta, a center funded by the donors of Peace Corps Partnership and community members of ADEC-Togo, I marched to the doors for the ribbon cutting with village chiefs and members of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hokey Pokey

    • Hokey Pokey

    • dance; youth development

    • This images is of my fellow PCV and children in our host village of Agou, Togo in the summer of 2007. While on break during our first weeks of training, we joined in teaching the children one of our favorite pastime games, the Hokey Pokey.
    • Volunteer Photos

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