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    • Peace Corps: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy

    • Peace Corps: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy

    • Volunteer recruitment; Wofford, Harris

    • Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
    • Brochures
    • 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
    • Young Students

    • Young Students

    • Children; Education; Schools; Women in Peace Corps

    • Students attending school every morning or afternoon. School sponsored by local Association to Aid Youth of Jequie.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fistula Center

    • Fistula Center

    • Women's movement

    • Mopti, Mali taken on August 07, 2008. I was giving a Moringa presentation as a part of a technical exchange with another Volunteer. The women at this center all had or were recovering from obstetric fistula.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students' First Visit to the Ocean in Jamaica

    • Students' First Visit to the Ocean in Jamaica

    • Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment

    • I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morning Catch in Alligator Pond

    • Morning Catch in Alligator Pond

    • Work; Environment; Women in Peace Corps; Fishing

    • This photo was taken at the beach in Alligator Pond, Jamaica in 2004. The south coast of Jamaica has a large ing community, and when the morning's catch in brought in, people from local towns would come down to the beach to haggle for . Some of my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chicas Sanas

    • Chicas Sanas

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

    • This photo was taken during a Soy Sana Chicas Brillantes mini conference in the Dominican Republic on Saturday April 14, 2012. Soy Sana focused on the girls understanding their body and reproductive organs, as well as HIV/AIDS prevention through an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • International Women's Day

    • International Women's Day

    • Celebrations; Women's movement; Food and meals; International Women's Day

    • International Women's Day Celebration in Niue, South Pacific in 2000. The women gathered to show their crafts, watch and perform in dances and songs and of course, eat delicious Niuean food! This was the buffet table - as colorful as the women...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Future Women

    • Future Women

    • Children

    • I took this picture on a visit to a students home in northeastern Cambodia. These are her two youngest sisters and he younger brother in the background.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • I Am

    • I Am

    • Host families; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken in beautiful Belize in spring 2011. My sister is the girl in the photo. She is a strong girl with strong opinions and in this photo she is stating a statement about her life.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls Rural Basketball League

    • Girls Rural Basketball League

    • Sports; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken in April 2011 in Guatemala. As an outlet and self-esteem builder, I started a basketball league for teenage girls from surrounding areas. This picture shows some of the girls wearing their newly donated jerseys from a family...
    • 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
    • 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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