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    • Women Fishing on the Niger

    • Women Fishing on the Niger

    • Fishing

    • Women in Tiguibery, Guinea, fish with their children in tow. After catching the tiny fish, the women gracefully placed their catch in the calabash bowls balanced on their heads. The dry season on the Niger River also allows locals to do their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tuareg Camel Riders

    • Tuareg Camel Riders

    • Celebrations; Animals

    • The Tuareg camel riders completed the 1967 Independence Day Parade in Niger. The Tuareg are the desert people of Northern Niger. The camels are sensitive to humidity and are limited to desert conditions. This is about 15.3 degrees latitude, the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Three Muses

    • Three Muses

    • Children

    • Three girls of a close family in the village of Tanka, Niger. It must have been bath time. The photo was taken in 2006 and it captures each of their personalities so perfectly.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The President's Welcome

    • The President's Welcome

    • Dignitaries

    • His Excellency Hamani Diori, the first president of Niger, is personnally welcoming each 1967 Peace Corps Volunteer to Niger. The Volunteer welcome included a dinner with the President, the First Lady, other government officials, several embassy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taking a Rde through the Sahara Desert

    • Taking a Rde through the Sahara Desert
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    • This photo was taken in Agadez, Niger, in the Sahara desert, in February 1990. Some fellow Volunteers and I were sitting in the back of a pick-up truck on our way to start our one-week trek through the Sahara desert at the end of our Peace Corps...
    • 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
    • Story Telling

    • Story Telling

    • Camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Volunteers Marisa and Ashley pass some free time telling stories to their Young Girls' Empowerment Camp participants. Zinder, Niger. 3/24/2010
    • 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
    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Host community friends; games

    • Yuan Xiao Lu, a graduate student at the univeristy where I served teaching English, became one of my favorite Scrabble buddies. April 2011.
    • 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
    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • These students planned and hosted GuiYang Medical University's 3rd Annual Prom, "An Evening in Paris." The evening included American dances like the YMCA and country line dance, crowning of prom king and queen, and a performance by A Cappella group...
    • 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
    • Photo Class

    • Photo Class

    • Teachers and students

    • Volunteer Marisa helps students in her photography club critique their photos from the previous week's assignment. Community Youth Center, Zinder, Niger. January 8, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos

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