GAD at Camp

Ouled Teima

At the Ouled Teima summer camp (Souss-Massa-Drâa region) PCVs Johanna Boyle and Caitlin Stechschulte utilized the Picture Perspective activity in the new GAD at Camp toolkit.

This activity challenges participants to analyze gender roles and stereotypes in society and how they influence perceptions as well as encourages participants to reflect on their own gender roles and opportunities.

For the activity, each participant received a selected magazine clipping that was purposefully gender neutral (ie identifying body parts that associate the person as being male or female were not included) and they were directed to complete the picture with the materials provided.  Everyone appeared to really enjoy the activity and some great discussion ensued about the pictures that they created and gender roles within Moroccan society.

Zaio

Far north in the Rif region, PCVs Courtney Haueter, Tiffany Devoy, and Meg Fowler wanted to incorporate discussions about gender into the Zaio camp's theme of building employment and job seeking skills for young adults. It turns out that with just a few tweaks to the original discussion questions, the You Can Dream video is a great springboard for talking about entrepreneurship as well as women in nontraditional fields of work. Both the men and the women participating in camp found lots to talk about after watching the video and it sparked an interesting conversation around what is appropriate work for women and how camp participants view taking risk and striking out on your own versus striving for more secure employment.

These are just two examples of great GAD-related work done by PCVs in the field this summer. If you have more stories of how PCVs have incorporated GAD activities into their camps, let us know!