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    • Director of the Mother's Club

    • Director of the Mother's Club

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Maternal and child health

    • A prominent figure of the town of Tigualo, this woman is the director of the mothers’ club and owner of the only store in the town.
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    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching such subjects as health and sanitation. Many villages near Comilla still observe purdah, the traditional segregation of women from men and from life outside the home.
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    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is working at Comilla, East Pakistan, a crowded (2000 person per square mile) but fertile delta region. Recently, an organization called the Pakistan Academy for Village Development has been making an effort to raise the...
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    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching such subjects as health and sanitation. Many villages near Comilla still observe purdah, the traditional segregation of women from men and from life outside the home.
    • Agency Photos
    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Clothing

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching such subjects as health and sanitation. Here she rides to class in a half-Pakistani, half-American costume that she has adopted as most practical for her work.
    • Agency Photos
    • Car Trouble for Women's Group Teacher

    • Car Trouble for Women's Group Teacher

    • Transportation; Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching such subjects as health and sanitation. Here she checks the motor of her jeep, which was giving her trouble.
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    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching subjects such as health and sanitation. Here she and a Pakistani co-worker roll up a chart they have been using in a class.
    • Agency Photos
    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, East Pakistan. Here she watches women leave one of their meetings.
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Works in Adult Education

    • Volunteer Works in Adult Education

    • Education; Life Skills; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Volunteer works in adult education at the Foyer de la Femme in Toumodi, Ivory Coast, where she conducts classes in basic French and mathematics. She also teaches sewing and cooking and literacy five afternoons a week.
    • Agency Photos
    • Gender Stereotypes

    • Gender Stereotypes

    • Camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken on July 26th, 2010 at a GLOW camp that took place in Mohammedia, Morocco. This is the first session of the camp's curriculum, and these teens are brainstorming and taking notes about gender stereotypes and the differences...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning to Make Carpets

    • Learning to Make Carpets

    • Artisans; Crafts; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • A friend took this photo of me during training in 2007 in Godkepe, Turkmenistan, at a women's carpet-making "factory," a collective warehouse where women came together to weave large carpets. The knot-making was not complicated, but time consuming,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • High Atlas Mountain Community Meeting

    • High Atlas Mountain Community Meeting

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • My colleague, Nabila, facilitated a meeting of the women in a mountain village to discuss and prioritize their needs. Here they are doing pairwise ranking. This is part of the training program I helped the High Atlas Foundation to develop for rural...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Solidarity

    • Solidarity

    • Dance; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This is a picture of the Garifuna Women's Solidarity Dance. It was taken in Belize, March 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Indigenous Women's Ascent Volcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador

    • First Indigenous Women's Ascent Volcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women's movement

    • EMPOWERMENT, LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH THE ANDEAN WOMEN’S MOUNTAINEERING MOVEMENT In our “progressive” modern world, women continue to be discouraged from pursuing many of their hopes and dreams, especially in the developing...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Story Telling

    • Story Telling

    • Camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Volunteers Marisa and Ashley pass some free time telling stories to their Young Girls' Empowerment Camp participants. Zinder, Niger. 3/24/2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Joy of Being a Woman

    • The Joy of Being a Woman

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women's movement

    • This photo was taken on National Mozambican Women's Day, April 7th, 2010. This is a day where all women are commemorated in Mozambique, which is important in Mozambique's struggle to gain gender equality. Pictured is a young woman teacher trainee...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Capacity building training

    • Capacity building training

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken in a village in Fiji. The woman in the forefront was the Ministry of Woman office for the province of Navua. We were visiting the woman's group in the village as they wanted to embark on an income generating project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Video workshop

    • Video workshop

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken during a participatory video training session at the Navua Rural Women's Telecentre Group in Fiji. The women's group wanted to create a promotional DVD that showcased who they were as an organisation. The women all received...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mujeres Poderosas

    • Mujeres Poderosas

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development

    • This photo that I took in January, 2011, shows young teenage girls from the Andes mountains in Shilla, Peru on their first day of the club Mujeres Poderosas (Powerful Women) in which they participated in a 6 week workshop where we talked about...
    • Volunteer Photos

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