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    • Volunteer Helps Daughter with Homework

    • Volunteer Helps Daughter with Homework

    • Youth; Education

    • Volunteer takes time from teaching visually handicapped students in Rabat, Morocco, to help his daughter with her math. She studies languages in the local school, but her parents teacher her math from a specially prepared home study course.
    • Agency Photos
    • Environmental Trash Pick-up

    • Environmental Trash Pick-up

    • youth; environment

    • Despite of the rain, the students’ eager to collected as much trash as they could in order to help promote a cleaner environment and raise environmental awareness throughout the community of Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco. This photo shows the students...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students Teaching Each Others

    • Students Teaching Each Others

    • youth; environment

    • After an environmental trash pick-up activity and lesson in Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, we’ve divided the students in groups and asked them to present what they have learned from the activity and how they envision a healthy environment to be.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trask Pick-up

    • Trask Pick-up

    • youth; environment

    • Zakaria placed the collected trashes into the garbage can from an environmental trash pick-up activity in Ait Ben Haddou. This activity enhances the youth awareness and helps promote a cleaner and healthier environment.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Art and Craft Activity

    • Art and Craft Activity

    • youth; environment

    • After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Art and Craft Activity

    • Art and Craft Activity

    • youth; environment

    • After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students at Orphanage Camp Learning English

    • Students at Orphanage Camp Learning English

    • youth; education

    • Eager to learn, level three students at an orphanage camp in Rabat are writing their daily lesson. They are excited to learn what I was going to teach them next. These young minds are full of questions about proper ways of writing and speaking...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Full of Excitement

    • Full of Excitement

    • youth; education

    • The students at Imlil Primary School are full of excitement and anticipation of all the activities and gifts provided by the Casablanca’s Rotary Club.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Moroccan Wedding in the Morning

    • A Moroccan Wedding in the Morning

    • Weddings; Celebrations

    • Moroccan weddings are an event that can include the entire town. Early in the morning, family members of the bride wake up and march through the streets singing and chanting to let everyone know that a member of the community is about to be wed....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching in Ardestan, Iran

    • Teaching in Ardestan, Iran

    • Youth development; Training; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer serves as a TEFL teacher in Ardestan, Iran. Located at the Bourgerd TEFL Training site he teaches English to children equivalent to fifth grade level. Joseph is shown drilling some of his students.
    • Agency Photos
    • Dressed like a Moroccan

    • Dressed like a Moroccan

    • Traditional dress; Host families

    • I love Moroccan clothing and so I couldn't wait to try them on. I was thrilled when one of my host relatives suggested that I wear a Kaftan at a dinner party. My aunts and cousins dressed me up in this fabulous dress that was a bit long for me, but...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Clowning with Kids in the Classroom

    • Clowning with Kids in the Classroom

    • Teachers and students; Youth; Secondary projects

    • One of my favorite jobs in Morocco was mentoring youth at a juvenile facility in Fes, the country's oldest city. Some of the kids joined me for a candid moment after an attempt to teach them a few words in English in the fall of 2006.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ah Jawad!

    • Ah Jawad!

    • Teachers and students; Camps and clubs

    • Taken during spring camp in Morocco, this is Peace Corps Voulunteer Jeff (Jawad), with one of our best English students who insisted we call him "Fat Tony."
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Spelling Bee

    • Spelling Bee

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken during an advanced English class at an English immersion camp in Morocco. The students were participating in a spelling competition.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Basketball in Morocco

    • Basketball in Morocco

    • Sports; Small Project Assistance (SPA)

    • This is a picture of the Volunteer playing basketball with local youth behind the youth center. The hoops were renovated with funding from a Peace Corps/USAID SPA grant.
    • Volunteer Photos

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