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    • "Promoting Peace and Friendship"

    • "Promoting Peace and Friendship"

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

    • PCVs visited the Village of Buteni, Romania on September 8, 2008 to assist a skills training workshop for Roma Girls funded by Peace Corps GAD Romania. They met this wonderful Romania lady who gave information about the life of the Romas in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pride

    • Pride

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

    • This photo shows the first female soccer team of La Montana, Osical, Morazan, El Salvador. The girls are meeting in February 2011 to train for an upcoming soccer tournament. This soccer tournament will mark the first time the girls have hosted a...
    • 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
    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

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

    • This is a photo of our group of girls in Chalkar, Kazakhstan. This Camp GLOW was the fourth of four Camp GLOWs that took place throughout Kazakhstan in the summer of 2011. There were 30 participants at the 5 day/6 night sleepaway camp. It was an...
    • 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
    • Girls' Summer Math and Leadership Camp

    • Girls' Summer Math and Leadership Camp

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

    • I took this photo during the summer camp that I organized and led during the summer between my two years of service. I invited girls from my 8th and 9th grade classes to participate in a week-long camp that consisted of math and science review,...
    • Volunteer 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
    • The Long Road Home

    • The Long Road Home

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

    • This is a picture of the road leading out of my town, Kibaya, Tanzania. There are many farms and gardens out this way which the local women tend to everyday. Photo was taken Spring 2011.
    • Volunteer 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, 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)

    • 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...
    • Agency Photos
    • 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)

    • 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
    • What Women Do

    • What Women Do

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

    • This photo was taken on May 27, 2010 in Pandanrejo village, East Java, Indonesa. I took this photo of Angela, PCV and Ibu Eka a language and culture facilitator during Pre-Service Training. We were conducting a PACA tool event in the village...
    • Volunteer 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
    • On Our Way to Victory

    • On Our Way to Victory

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

    • In the back of a pickup truck riding to Madolenihmw Women's Day with the rest of my team. Our captain holds our banner aloft.
    • 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
    • Apple Pie

    • Apple Pie

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

    • This photo was taken of Sarah, an environmental education PCV in Senegal, while she teaches middles school girls how to make apple pie during the food cultural exchange session of our girls' leadership camp July 2011 in Ndioum, Senegal.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Over she goes!

    • Over she goes!

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

    • They said she couldn't do it in a mulafa. This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, during EcoHealth Camp 2007; one week in July where 2 girls from each Peace Corps village and their chaperones came together for sports,...
    • Volunteer Photos

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