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    • Health Educator

    • Health Educator

    • Health

    • This Volunteer is assigned to Paraguay as a Health Educator and Environmental Sanitationist. Here she is shown playing with children at Health Center.
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    • Farm Production

    • Farm Production

    • Agriculture

    • This Volunteer (left) is shown talking with a farmer. Jim teaches better production methods in tobacco and cotton in Paraguay.
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    • Farm Production

    • Farm Production

    • Agriculture

    • This Volunteer is shown in front of his house at Chel Ouiedo, Paraguay. He teaches better production methods in tobacco and cotton in Paraguay.
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    • Talking with a Health Educator

    • Talking with a Health Educator

    • Health

    • This Volunteer is shown talking with a health educator in front of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare building. She is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and coordinates five health programs in Paraguay.
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    • Latrine Inspection

    • Latrine Inspection

    • Water and sanitation; Health

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he inspects a latrine as part of his daily inspection program to improve health and sanitary conditions.
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    • Weed Control Research Project

    • Weed Control Research Project

    • Agriculture

    • This Volunteer works in a weed control research project at the Ministry of Agriculture in Paraguay. Here, she is shown in the entomology laboratory examining live beetles that cause much of the damage to the crops.
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    • Soil Analysis

    • Soil Analysis

    • Agriculture

    • This Volunteer does research at a soil analysis lab at the Institute of Agronomico National at Caacupe. He also does routine analysis of soil samples. Here, he observes the growth response of cotton to fertilization.
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    • Covering Pipes

    • Covering Pipes

    • Water and sanitation; Health

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he works with local kids to cover pipes installed for the water system.
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    • Latrine Inspection

    • Latrine Inspection

    • Water and sanitation; Health

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he inspects a latrine as part of his daily inspection program to improve health and sanitary conditions.
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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 of village residents.
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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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