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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.
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    • 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.
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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
    • 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
    • A Moment of Grace

    • A Moment of Grace

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

    • 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 at 5:00am; asked...
    • 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
    • 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.
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    • Camp GLOW

    • Camp GLOW

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

    • Photo taken on August 26, 2011 during Camp GLOW (Girls Leading our World), a leadership training camp geared toward school-age females in Burkina Faso.
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    • 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
    • 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
    • Chicas Poderosas

    • Chicas Poderosas

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

    • I took this photo at a sleep over with the graduating Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Girls) group that I started in my town, Nueva Esperanza de Cano Negro, Los Chiles, Alajuela, Costa Rica. After two months the girls had completed a workbook, service...
    • Volunteer Photos

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