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A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...
I took this photo at a naming ceremony (Koolio) in 1981 in Jambanjelly, The Gambia, West Africa. When a child is seven days old he or she is given a name, and the village comes to celebrate the occasion. The mother (with face covered by material)...
The girl in the photo is a relative of one of my close friends. It was taken at a naming ceremony in the Tahoua region. Friends and family joined to celebrate the naming of Mariam. She died less than a week later.
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...
This photo was taken at the naming ceremony of my host sister Binta's namesake, Binta in Kombo Central, West Coast Region, The Gambia. In the photo are my host sisters, friends, myself and baby Binta. The photo was taken in July of 2011.
This photo was taking in front of my own hut in my training village, around November of 2000. These three cousins had been reunited because of a naming ceremony that would be happening that day.
This photo was taken during my best friend's baby naming ceremony in a local church in a fishing village in the Western Region of Ghana. The photo shows a line of women bringing the newborn child to the front to be dedicated and officially named....