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    • Art and Culture

    • Art and Culture

    • artisans; youth development

    • This photo was taken January 29, 2011 during a meeting with the first Artesan Youth Group of La Montana, Osical, Morazan, El Salvador. The kids are meeting to learn how to tie-dye shirts that will be sold to promote the culture of the community and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nutrition at Camp GLOW

    • Nutrition at Camp GLOW

    • Camps and clubs; Youth development

    • From December 11-14, 2010, Peace Corps Suriname Volunteers held a Camp GLOW for young women who live on the upper Suriname River. In this photo, volunteers work with a local health worker to help the campers construct a food pyramid. Photo by Ryan...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friendship Bracelet Making at a GLOW Camp

    • Friendship Bracelet Making at a GLOW Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Youth development

    • During a Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp in September 2011, Volunteer Allison provides pointers about friendship bracelet-making to a camper. In addition to the friendship bracelet activity, the camp included workshops on citizen participation,...
    • 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
    • Soccer Stars

    • Soccer Stars

    • Children; Sports; Youth development

    • I took this photo during my first few days at site when I discovered a soccer field and played with a bunch of kids. This is a photo of some the kids after the game that were following me after the game and asking me questions.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls' Soccer Practice

    • Girls' Soccer Practice

    • Sports; Youth development; Women's movement

    • This photo was taken in September, 2005 in Same, East Timor. My wife and I and a Portuguese language teacher helped train a group of girls who asked us for their help to get a girls soccer team together. This was an important project because the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sittin Pretty

    • Sittin Pretty

    • youth development

    • This photo was taken on July 25, 2011 of children playing on the new playground equipment installed at the Child Development Center. The Peace Corps volunteer and her Thai counterparts organized a playground building project with volunteer...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Mural at Radu Recreation Center

    • Student Mural at Radu Recreation Center

    • youth development; art

    • Students are working with a local entrepreneur in Moldova to convert one floor in her building into a youth recreation center. One of their projects is to paint a mural of images and words that are important or have special meaning to the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candy Colored Paint Buckets

    • Candy Colored Paint Buckets

    • youth development; construction

    • This photo is of Peace Corps Volunteer, Kathlyn Paananen on July 7, 2011. The volunteer organized a playground design-build skills training, in which community volunteers built playground equipment for five different Child Community Development...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Playground Technical Training

    • Playground Technical Training

    • youth development; construction

    • I took this photo on July 4, 2011. The photo shows two trainers on the left from a Bangkok based NGO explaining how to build playground equipment with used seatbelts. Surrounding the trainers are community members who have volunteered their time to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Map mural

    • Map mural

    • Art; Teachers and students; Youth development

    • A group of Volunteers painting a map mural. Cabrera, Dominican Republic, 2001
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Romania Journalism Camp

    • Romania Journalism Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Youth development

    • In August 2007, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers across Romania converged on Sovata, Ro., in Transylvania for a week-long journalism camp. Here Volunteer Matt Zdon helps students prepare articles for the camp newspaper.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Back-Handed Excessive Force Technique

    • Back-Handed Excessive Force Technique

    • Health; Youth Development; Life Skills

    • Learning to brush your teeth can be a fun activity especially when you have a cool new toothbrush to do it with. We received donations of about 50 new toothbrushes and some toothpaste. So, I decided it would be a great opportunity to teach the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Window of Hope Graduating Class

    • Window of Hope Graduating Class

    • hiv/aids; youth development;

    • This photo was taken on August 2, 2009 with one of the several Window of Hope groups that I worked with at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). Window of Hope is a UNICEF driven educational program made up of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth development

    • During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
    • Volunteer Photos

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