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    • Health Worker

    • Health Worker

    • Health

    • This Volunteer works with the Ministry of Health in the rural village of Chacarita She makes periodic home visits to check the health village residents.
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    • Latrine Project

    • Latrine Project

    • Water and sanitation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and works with members of the community putting together a roof on a latrine.
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    • Making Paraguayan Lace

    • Making Paraguayan Lace

    • Crafts

    • This Volunteer creates and organizes concentrated, integrated programs of public health in rural sattelite areas. Here, Joe watches his wife Gloria work with local family to help them market their special Paraguayan lace called “nanduti.”
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    • Production Training

    • Production Training

    • Agriculture

    • This Volunteer is shown at entrance to the tobacco warehouse (dark jacket) with tobacco growers and neighbors.He teaches better production methods in tobacco and cotton in Paraguay.
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    • Nutrition Volunteer

    • Nutrition Volunteer

    • Nutrition

    • This Volunteer works with families on nutrition, environmental sanitation, community development and mother-child care. Here she is shown (with light shirt) talking to a health inspector for the Paraguayan government and families about hygiene in...
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    • Public Health Volunteer

    • Public Health Volunteer

    • Health

    • This Volunteer creates and organizes concentrated, integrated programs of public health in rural satellite areas. Here he is shown in front of his house with neighborhood children.
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    • Volunteer Nurses

    • Volunteer Nurses

    • Medicine

    • These Volunteer nurses are shown talking with Paraguayan counterparts during time off from classes. Both nurse Volunteers teach a nursing program of 56 students, who will eventually man the small health centers where frequently no other source of...
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    • Ant Control Project

    • Ant Control Project

    • Agriculture

    • This Volunteer is assigned to an Ant Control Project in Paraguay. Here he is shown (with beard) studying ant activity at ant hill with Americo Aranda, a Paraguayan technical assistant for the Instituto de Ciencias Bosicas, in Paraguay. These ants...
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