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    • Zoya's Sew Shop

    • Zoya's Sew Shop
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    • Zoya works in a small room just off the shortcut I take into town every day. She says she learned how to sew when she was 17 at classes she took at the cultural house in Yeghegnadzor over 30 years ago. She along with her soviet era sewing machine...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra

    • Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra
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    • As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with carpet weavers in developing their organization. I also worked with cave dwelling nomads that lived in the hills surrounding the village. This is Zahra, one of the nomads who is a weaver,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth CAN Ukrainian Dress Day

    • Youth CAN Ukrainian Dress Day
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    • This was taken by my Ukrainian friend Alex at a two week long Youth CAN (Youth Community Action Network) conference in eastern Ukraine. The day's theme was "Ukrainian Pride" and the shirts you are seeing are called "serochkas" - national dress worn...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Youth at Dance Performance
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    • Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Young Muslim Girl
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    • This little girl is one of my neighbors and she is the loudest little girl. She will see me coming from a mile away and scream my name as loud as she can before running over and chatting non-stop in the local language, Kiborana. On this day in June...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Love

    • Young Love
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    • This photo was taken in May 2008 at School #3662 in Isla Tobati, Paraguay. This is a traditional dance that the students were doing for a Mother's Day celebration. The photo shows a girl and boy in costume during the performance. They are both six...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Kichwa Dancer

    • Young Kichwa Dancer
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    • This photo was taken on May 23, 2009 at a dance competition in Ecuador. Traditional Kichwa dances are performed at every public event in the Napo province and troupes are composed children of all ages. The dance steps describe traditional...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yi Teenage Boy

    • Yi Teenage Boy
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    • I lived in an area that was the capital of the Yi nationality. Although many Yi women are seen wearing traditional dress, it is less common to see the men in traditional dress. That's part of why I was so impressed with this boy's clothing. He...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemeni Shepherd Girls

    • Yemeni Shepherd Girls
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    • Taken in the highlands of Yemen, somewhere between Amran and Thula, in Fall of 1977. My husband and I had arrived in Yemen about a week before and were hiking toward the highest mountain on the Arabian peninsula, and wondering how we would be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Day Celebration

    • Women's Day Celebration
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    • My school held a celebration dinner for International Women's Day, March 8th. Women's Day is a big deal in Romania. I enjoyed the dinner and dancing, after which a friend took this picture showing me and students in traditional costumes. My...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Custom Dance

    • Women's Custom Dance
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    • The women of the village Nereingman, Mota Lava, presented a custom dance during a cultural celebration. Unfortunately, the dance had to take place inside the village meeting house when it started raining. The leader of the group's name is Marian,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Chorus in Vilkova, Ukraine

    • Women's Chorus in Vilkova, Ukraine
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    • One of the many women's choruses at a Festival of Russian Culture in Vilkova, Ukraine, 2009. This region of southern Ukraine was formerly called Bessarabia, and I have been told that there are more than 30 ethnic groups or cultures in Odessa...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Baking Lavash

    • Women Baking Lavash
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    • My neighbors operate a lavash bakery and I often go there in the winter time to hang out because the ladies are always good for a fun conversation and it is nice and warm in there. The process is fascinating to watch, obviously these women have had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wise Old Man

    • Wise Old Man
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    • This man paused to tell stories of the river we were photographing for a story about trash in Armenia's rivers. He was reminiscing about how as a young boy he used to swim in the spot we were photographing.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcoming Guests

    • Welcoming Guests
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    • I took the time to welcome all the guests who made it to the opening ceremony of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta in my village of Adeta, Togo, including the smallest ones. The ceremony dedicated the new center to the village of Adeta and was...
    • Volunteer Photos

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