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    • Visiting Tuareg Camp after a Rain in Niger

    • Visiting Tuareg Camp after a Rain in Niger

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Children

    • While backpacking around the village of Illela, where I lived, I met a Tuareg extended family living in the wadi. We became good friends, and I frequently spent my Sunday's with them, playing with the children, telling stories, and drinking camel's...
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    • A Tuareg Hairstyle

    • A Tuareg Hairstyle

    • Host community friends

    • In 1976, on my weekend visits with Tuareg friends in the wadi outside of Illela, Niger, I would frequently sit while my friends braided my hair.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Horsing Around in Hats

    • Horsing Around in Hats

    • Host community friends; Children

    • Children from the neighborhood came to visit on a regular basis. We played games, worked on art projects, gardened, listened to music, or just played around. Here two boys wear big hats for fun. Taken in Illela, Niger, 1976.
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    • 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...
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    • Kareema

    • Kareema

    • Host community friends

    • Illela, a rural town about five hundred miles northwest of Niamey, sits at the mouth of the Sahara Desert in the Republic of Niger. The desert moves inexorably forward, swallowing bit by bit farmers’ fields north of town. While living there as a...
    • Volunteer Photos

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