Posts tagged Zambia
Life is calling. How far will you go?
From Albania to Zambia and everywhere in between, the Peace Corps family wishes you and yours a very Happy New Year!
Peace Corps Volunteer Tiffany Saria works with Grassroot Soccer in Zambia, using soccer to teach HIV-prevention. She uses innovative curriculum, games and soccer activities to education youth about HIV transmissions and life skills.
Mupundus, a Zambian Bush fruit that tastes of plums
- Peace Corps Education Volunteer Carrie Pavlik
Peace Corps Volunteer Tiffany Saria works with Grassroots Soccer in Zambia, using soccer to teach HIV-prevention. She uses innovative curriculum, games and soccer activities to education youth about HIV transmissions and life skills.
“Educating the people of Songwe on better breeding techniques, improved business skills, improved feed with local resources and giving livestock access to water would improve the livestock in the area and potentially improve the income of farmers.”
Peace Corps Volunteer Organizes Livestock Management Project in Zambia
Zambia, World Malaria Day 2012The National Malaria Control Centre organized mobile clinics around townships to screen, test, and treat people.The Peace Corps Stomp Out Malaria Coordinator Jane Coleman and a Linking Income and Food Environment Volunteer Laura Walls walked around with community health workers and their loud speakers, letting people know to come to the mobile clinic to get tested!Jane and Laura spent the rest of the morning with the patients and staff screening, testing and treating mothers, children under five and even some of their fathers.People were lined up around the clinic and many people went home with Coartem and will be happy and healthy for the month of May!
Building a new home in rural Zambia takes a lot of time and effort. On May 30, 2008, in a small village in the Luapula province, much of the community helped to build a home of mud bricks and dried grass for a struggling family in the village. The photograph I took shows six women carrying pails of water from a nearby stream to the men who mix the water into mud to make new bricks and mortar.
- Peace Corps Agriculture Volunteer Jason Hays
An aquaculture extension Volunteer in Zambia shares a photo of her community’s fish pond
I wasn’t sure how my background in business could be useful in dealing with HIV and AIDS. But by teaching business skills to women impacted by the pandemic, they were empowered to create viable businesses that could sustain them and the people who depended on them.
Zambia, 2003–2004
Uganda and Kenya, 1998–2000
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