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Smithsonian Folk Life Festival 2011
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The Peace Corps program at the festival combines the goals of both organizations by honoring fifty years of exchange that have helped promote greater understanding and appreciation of cultures from around the world.
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Children are taught how to make Malian mud cloth, which utilizes iron-rich mud, natural dyes, and cotton cloth to produce distinctive colors and culturally symbolic patterns.
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Master weaver Nkerisapa Lewano is an active member of the Ngurunit Basket Weavers Group in northern Kenya, a program sponsored by the Peace Corps.
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Rukaya Amidu demonstrates the labor of producing shea butter. She is a member of the Christian Mother�s Association shea butter cooperative in Damongo, Ghana.