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    • Mentally Handicap School in Nairobi

    • Mentally Handicap School in Nairobi

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Jacaranda School in Nairobi, Kenya. The school is for mentally handicapped and retarded. It is located in the suburbs 20 minutes by bus from town. She works with nursery age, mentally and physically handicapped...
    • Agency Photos
    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Youth development; Business development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Another Volunteer is assigned to the government farm cooperative of Machakos as administrative advisor.
    • Agency Photos
    • Installing Tractor Treads

    • Installing Tractor Treads

    • Training; Host community

    • A Volunteer teaches his Kenyan students how to repair heavy construction machinery by doing it himself. Here, he shows his students how to install tractor treads.
    • Agency Photos
    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Housing; Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She is sparsely furnished, has a number of Kenyan artifacts. She does her shopping, as shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking...
    • Agency Photos
    • Visiting Children in the Villages of Machakos

    • Visiting Children in the Villages of Machakos

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here, she and her counterpart, center, and supervisor, left. They visited children in the villages.
    • Agency Photos
    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She does her shopping, shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking on a wood burning stove.
    • Agency Photos
    • Breakfast in Kilibwoni

    • Breakfast in Kilibwoni

    • Housing; Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer has breakfast with other Volunteers in their house in Kilibwoni. One Volunteer teaches history and geograpghy in the harambee secondary school in Kilibwoni. The other teaches english in the same school. The Volunteer to the right works...
    • Agency Photos
    • Breakfast with Friends in Kilibwoni

    • Breakfast with Friends in Kilibwoni

    • Host community; Host community friends

    • A Volunteer has breakfast with other Volunteers in their house in Kilibwoni. One of them teaches history and geograpghy in the harambee secondary school in Kilibwoni. The other teaches english in the same school. The last Volunteer works in a...
    • Agency Photos
    • Lunch in Kilibwoni With Friends

    • Lunch in Kilibwoni With Friends

    • Host community; Host community friends

    • Volunteers have lunch together at their house in Kilibwoni, Kenya. Two of them are teachers in the Harambee secondary school there and the other works in community development in a slum area ouside Nairobi.
    • Agency Photos
    • Child Welfare in Machakos

    • Child Welfare in Machakos

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here, she and her counterpart, center, and supervisor, left. They visited children in the villages.
    • Agency Photos
    • Settlements in Kakamega

    • Settlements in Kakamega

    • Housing; Host community

    • A Volunteer is an ag extension agent on settlements in the Kakamega District of Kenya. He works mostly in dairy and maize--also visits farmers and advises them on ways to improve their methods of raising maize, cattle feeding, and paddocking etc....
    • Agency Photos
    • Eating With Another PCV

    • Eating With Another PCV

    • Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer is an ag extension agent on settlements in the Kakamega District of Kenya. He works mostly in dairy and maize--also visits farmers and advises them on ways to improve their methods of raising maize, cattle feeding, and paddocking etc....
    • Agency Photos
    • Refereeing a Boxing Match

    • Refereeing a Boxing Match

    • Host community; Training

    • A Volunteer teaches secondary school history and geography in Kilibwoni, Kenya. He also helps out with the physical education program and here is shown refereeing a boxing match.
    • Agency Photos
    • Working With Farmers

    • Working With Farmers

    • Host community; Training

    • A PCV Volunteer works in animal husbandry as an ag extension officer working with farmers on a new water through constructed to wash their livestock and cut down diseases they may carry.
    • Agency Photos
    • Lunch in Kilibwoni

    • Lunch in Kilibwoni

    • Housing; Host community friends

    • Volunteers have lunch with each other at their house in Kilibwoni, Kenya. Two of them are teachers in the Harambee secondary school there and the other works in community development in a slum area outside Nairobi.
    • Agency Photos

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