This is my host dad, Soso and I. We are enjoying a birthday supra (Georgian feast not unlike Thanksgiving) during the summer of 2010. Family and friends from all over the region came to celebrate with us, and also where Soso introduced me as his...
This photo was taken on March 8th, 2011 at MIFUMI's International Women's Day Celebration in Uganda. The photo is of Guest of Honor Beth Amoit and Volunteer Laura Leach.
March 8, 2011. Four Peace Corps Volunteers participating in a day-long celebration of International Women's Day in Madagascar. In this picture, we are singing about AIDS prevention using the popular rhythm of "Waka Waka." Other posters were also...
At the end of the parade celebrating International Women's Day in Maroua, Cameroon this year, this women walked past all the people watching the parade. The crowd initially was silent and then you could hear everyone murmurs of comments erupt. ...
For International Women's Day, the women leaders of Maroua took a day trip to Pouss to meet their Sultan and to Maga to see the fishing and rice production. I had the honor of being invited to pariticipate. Every place we stopped the villagers...
These are members of a music, dance, and drama group from Kisoko, Uganda performing at the International Women's Day celebration that took place on March 8th, 2011.
I remember this as one of our first community events on the island. It was Children's Day and all of the children were paraded through the village as the honored citizens that they are. Children knew they were special but they also knew they had...
Volunteer Caroline Mackenzie works with the Association for the Young Disabled of Eastern Donbass Region, Luhansk Ukraine, celebrating the abilities and talents of everyone on Valentine's Day.
HIV/AIDS; Education; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
Women's Day is a national holiday in South Africa. From 2007-2009, my husband, Ben, and I were Volunteers in the rural village of Mokuruanyane, SA. My primary project was working with four women educators to develop Chrysalis Girls Club, an...
Community Development Volunteer Michael Warchol and his Ukrainian host father, Andriy, prepare a fire to roast sausages on Orthodox Christmas. His host family has a tradition of decorating a real fir tree in the woods each year and going sledding.
Grade four students from St. Dominics R.C. Primary School in Grenada have just completed making Mothers Day cars for elderly ladies at the St. Martins Home for the Aged. Each student was given two pieces of construction paper and there was only one...
This photo was taken during a Children's Day (Día del Niño) celebration at the Escuela Básica Paraguay - Japón in La Colmena, Paraguay, South America.
La Colmena was the first Japanese colony in Paraguay, and the children in this school...
After the big children's day parade, a group of middle school students, the principal, the assistant principal and a male teacher posed with me on the steps of the Karamanli Orta Okulu. I'm standing in the background and except for my smile and...
This is a photo of me and my host mom in 2009. The photo was taken at Kutundaola Primary School in Pele Village on Tongoa Island in Vanuatu. She is holding freshly roasted bananas.