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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Agency Photos
    • Testing Out a Fuel Efficient Cookstove

    • Testing Out a Fuel Efficient Cookstove

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Food and meals

    • I took this photo of the women's group (and children) in my village of Fiadanana, Madagascar in May 2008. I had inherited a fuel efficient cookstove project from the previous volunteer. The women and I had recently completed this cookstove and we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Garden for Planting

    • Preparing the Garden for Planting

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

    • At risk women in Finote Selam, Ethiopia are tilling and watering the garden in preparation for planting. They are given two years of communal training in gardening and then given their own plot to raise their own food.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Proud to be a Woman

    • Proud to be a Woman

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

    • Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girl's empowerment. Here, we celebrated International Women's Day by discussing what our roles are as women today, successful and significant women...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • GLOW Girls Rock!

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken on our final day of a 6 day girls' empowerment camp that I planned and lead with a fellow PCV in July of 2011. Throughout this camp we discussed topics ranging from healthy relationships, to domestic violence, to journaling and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Dishes

    • Washing Dishes

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

    • Village girls learn by watching their mothers. This photo was taken in the early winter of 2011 in the North West Region of Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Bibi in Full Attention

    • A Bibi in Full Attention

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

    • This picture was taken in December 2010 in Tanzania. The woman in the picture was listening to a presentation about her chicken farm that was for the benefit of Peace Corps Volunteers who would potentially begin chicken projects in their own...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Powerful Talks to Make Girls Powerful

    • Powerful Talks to Make Girls Powerful

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

    • This photo was taken in June 2011 in Tanzania during our Girls Empowerment Conference. There were 68 girls from across the region that participated in learning about HIV/AIDS, health education, self-defense, environment, and career opportunities. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mother and Daughter

    • Mother and Daughter

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

    • Keitu had twins but her son died. We found out later that her daughter has developmental delays. This picture was taken in between these events.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Protected Banana

    • Protected Banana

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

    • I took this photo during a GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) camp in Piura, Peru during February, 2010. A large component of this girls' leadership weekend was teaching about sexual education. Here, one of the girls from my town, Yocelin, practices...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • Putting Your Hand Forward

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Secondary school learner Patricia shows off her primary artistic tool while making hand-print t-shirts at a Camp GLOW in Graskop, South Africa on February 9, 2011. The week-long camp consisted of sessions on life skills, girls empowerment and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lessons

    • Lessons

    • camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This was taken during our 1st annual Camp GLOW in Rwanda. GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) is a leadership, health education and empowerment camp for young women. PCV Kate Hulbert and I had an ambitious plan to create the next Annie Leibovitz. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remember to stretch!

    • Remember to stretch!

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

    • This photo was taken in July of 2007 at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania. The girls in the picture come from villages all over the country, and are participating in an EcoHealth Camp organized by Health and Environmental Education...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Moroccan Earth Day Celebration

    • A Moroccan Earth Day Celebration

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

    • I took this photo on March 22nd, 2011 during an Earth Day celebration with the women of the cooperative I was working with as well as many of the communities' children. We picked up trash from a local creek, discussed waste management options and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Woman's Association

    • Woman's Association

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

    • Some woman attending a workshop in Kaala Saraghna, posing in front of 'Hotel Kaala' before lunch, Association Amal Developement, July.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making mosquito repellant

    • Making mosquito repellant

    • health; camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, in July 2007. The girls in the photo are participating in EcoHealth Camp, a week of activities organized by Peace Corps volunteers focused on health, AIDS, and environmental...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Fish

    • Preparing the Fish

    • Environment; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women in Peace Corps

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos

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