WID / GAD stands for Women in Development and Gender And Development.  WID / GAD is composed of and run by current Peace Corps volunteers working throughout the world.  The mission of WID / GAD is to promote development and education among women in developing countries.   WID / GAD sponsors activities throughout the year, including national seminars as well as classes and lectures taken directly to local communities that focus on themes affecting women and families on a local and national level.  A sample of topics covered include health and nutrition, sexual and reproductive education, alcohol and drug abuse, parenting skills, cross-gender communication, as well as economic empowerment and organizing.   All activies are dsigned to promote WID / GAD objectives:  1) Promotion of women´s rights, 2)Increasing awareness of problems and issues that affect women and gender relations, and 3) Problem specific education on health and social problems that touch women and families.

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Indigenous Commerce Seminar at Milla 3, Bocas del Toro with volunteers: Anne Fazioli, Carmenza Cespedes, Wendy Wick, Julia McGinn R., Barbara Gulick, Kristen McIvor, Nicole Bollafet and Panama Country Director Janice Jorgensen in May, 2000.

Off hours during a seminar for commercializing indigenous art in El Piro, Veraguas, in January, 2000.  Volunteers Carmenza Cespedes and Anne Fazioli show Kuna and Ngäbe women a laptop computer.

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