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    • Volunteer Rides Horse From Village to Village

    • Volunteer Rides Horse From Village to Village

    • Rural sites

    • This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...
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    • Teacher Trainer

    • Teacher Trainer

    • Education; Community development; Rural sites

    • This Volunteer is a teacher trainer in the Dominican Republic. Her job takes her to a number of rural schools where she works with teachers helping them expand and upgrade existing methods of teaching in a country where 80 percent of the rural...
    • Agency Photos
    • Rural Development Program

    • Rural Development Program

    • Rural sites; Health

    • This Volunteer works in a Peace Corps integrated rural development program in conjunction with Ecuador’s Centro de Rehabilitacion de Manabi.Some responsibilities include teaching nutrtion, health, first aid, handicrafts to women. Here she is...
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    • Coal Community Volunteer

    • Coal Community Volunteer

    • Rural sites

    • Coal tipples such as this one typify the landscape of Eastern Kentucky. This Peace Corps Volunteer sees this sight every day as he visits coal and lumber communities in Kentucky’s Appalachia.
    • Agency Photos
    • The long and winding road...

    • The long and winding road...

    • Rural sites; Volunteers; Terrain

    • A group of volunteers walk at noon in the middle of a semidesertic area in their way to a rural town where they would teach people how to make an environment friendly place. Photo taken in Chiteje de Garabato, a small rural community in the state...
    • Staff Photos
    • Solar Pot presentation

    • Solar Pot presentation

    • Rural sites; Cooking

    • Solar pot presentation to rural communities. That day the whole community gathered at the main plaza to cook using solar pots. About 8 solar pots were used and several different dishes where fixed, including rice, beans, meat and a chocalate cake....
    • Staff Photos
    • Volunteer Talking to Villager in Ony Babre

    • Volunteer Talking to Villager in Ony Babre

    • Rural sites; Education; Health; Community development

    • This Volunteer works in Rural Community Development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here, the Volunteer talks with an Ivorian. She learned to speak french (the official language of this former French colony) during her Peace Corps...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Explains Medicine to Villagers

    • Volunteer Explains Medicine to Villagers

    • Community development; Rural sites; Health

    • This Volunteer works in Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here, the Volunteer explains to some of the villagers of Ony Babre how to take the medicine she has gotten for them.
    • Agency Photos
    • Success in Life

    • Success in Life

    • Rural sites; Volunteers; Children

    • This photograph was taken by me on October 22, 2010 in Banteay Meanchey Province. while a PCV named Emily was riding Peace Corps's bike from school to her host family house. She carried this banner in order to urge the young generation focusing on...
    • Staff Photos
    • Volunteer Education Women in Ony Babre

    • Volunteer Education Women in Ony Babre

    • Rural sites; Community development; Education; Health

    • This Voluntter works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches a literacy class. She is trying to teach the women to count enough French so that they can deal in the Gagnoa market...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Teaches a Literacy Class

    • Volunteer Teaches a Literacy Class

    • Education; Rural sites; Community development; Literacy

    • This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches a literacy class. She is trying to teach the women to count enough French so that they can deal in the Gagnoa market...
    • Agency Photos

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