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- Quince Años
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Celebrations; Children; Traditional dress -
Celebrating a 15th birthday party of the Solentiname Islands. Daniella was a beautiful birthday girl. - Volunteer Photos
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- Chavalos
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Teachers and students -
Me with my counterpart Rosita and one of our first-year classes at the Instituto Nacional Azarias Henry Pallais in Corinto, Nicaragua. This class included all of the misfits and repeating students in one section. The typical first-year student... - Volunteer Photos
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Teachers and students; Climate -
Before I successfully completed my Small Project Assistance (SPA) grant to reconstruct three classrooms of Instituto Nacional Azarias Henry Pallais in Corinto, Nicaragua, we were forced to hold class outside on the basketball court. There was no... - Volunteer Photos
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- Boats Off the Coast of Corinto
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Old fishing boats off of the coast of Corinto, Nicaragua. As Corinto is a very small island on the Pacific side of Nicaragua, one of the main industries is fishing. These old boats have been offshore for years, yet nobody uses them. - Volunteer Photos
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- Vaccination campaign in Cinkasse
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Maternal and child health; Health; Host community -
November 29, 2010. A mother holds tight as her baby receives an MMR vaccination during a campaign. You can see the nurse's hands. Many children came to the campaign with incomplete vaccination records. - Volunteer Photos
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- Morning walk
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Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress -
My friend, Volunteer Lizzy, spends a few minutes with her friends before taking a bus to travel south to Lome. - Volunteer Photos
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- On a gagne Pagui!
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Games; Children; Resiliency -
This photo is of a team building activity during the week of Camp UNITE. The team of seven girls must work together to cross the "dangerous waters" to find food and save their village. Pagui is the intimidating figure with the tail to the right... - Volunteer Photos
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- I know it! I know it!
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Schools; Children; Education -
September 2010. My friend PCV Katrina leads a session at a Camp she helped organize in her village Nadjoundi. Thirty girls from her village attended the three-day camp just before the beginning of the school year, to promote the importance of... - Volunteer Photos
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- Club Espoir
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Schools; Children; Education -
March 2011. My friend PCV Christy sits with the children at Club Espoir in Dapaong, northern Togo. At the time we were listening to the opening comments from one of the organizers. Club Espoir (Club Hope) is organized by PCVs and Dapaong's... - Volunteer Photos
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- Casa materna
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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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- El baile de pollo
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Games; Volunteers; site -
June 2008. This photo was taken at our Project Design and Management workshop at Selva Negra, near the city of Matagalpa. Three Nicaraguan colleagues and I are perfecting "el baile de pollo", or the chicken dance, that we had been practicing... - Volunteer Photos
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- Tressez-moi!
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Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress -
February 2011. I got my hair braided in Cinkasse in northern Togo. I had a great time talking and laughing with these two ladies, two wives of the same husband, while they did their work. Braids and wigs are the style there, as women often have... - Volunteer Photos
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- Pregame
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November 2010. This photo was taken at the High School in Cinkasse, northern Togo. Our team is warming up for the big match. Teachers versus Students. I had been working with an environment group of high school students, and they had been... - Volunteer Photos
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- Rosa and the Giant Hershey Bar
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Children; Host community; Food and meals -
This photo depicts a 6th grade student from Nicaragua in April 2002. During my Peace Corps service, I served as an Environmental Education Volunteer and worked in elementary schools. My Peace Corps Partnership Project was to complete the 1st... - Volunteer Photos
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- La Nubia's Fruitstand
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Art; Markets; Host community friends -
In Sebaco there was a fruitstand on the main road near my apartment. It was made of wood slats, a metal roof, and had a rug over the dirt floor. The woman who owned it was called simply La Nubia, though she wasn't Nubian as far as I could tell. ... - Volunteer Photos
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- Standing Up Against HIV
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HIV-AIDS; Drama -
This photo was taken during a workshop on female sexual health in the primary school of a rural farming community. The photo shows Selena Martinez as an HIV virus, surrounded by crouching girls, whom demonstrated white blood cells letting down... - Volunteer Photos
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- Don Condon es Nuestro Amigo! (Mr. Condom is Our Friend!)
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HIV/AIDS; Celebrations -
A youth promoter in Nicaragua teaches fellow youth about the proper use of a condom to prevent HIV infection. Such lessons were part of an HIV fair during World AIDS Day 2011. - Volunteer Photos
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- Hats On, Hombres
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HIV/AIDS -
This photo was taken during my practicum week in Nicaragua during my Peace Corps training. A group of Peace Corps trainees delivered an HIV/AIDS eduction workshop with a group of 60 navy men at the naval base in Corinto. The image is of me and a... - Volunteer Photos
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- Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS
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HIV/AIDS; Youth development -
During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a... - Volunteer Photos
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- It Fits!
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This photo was taken during a presentation about HIV and AIDS at a high school in Nicaragua on May 12th, 2011. The facilitator, a volunteer from the Nicaraguan Red Cross, is showing a 16-year-old student that condoms are not too small for anyone! - Volunteer Photos
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