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    • Let's learn to recycle

    • Let's learn to recycle

    • Celebrations; Children

    • The photo was taken during the annual feria parade in my site in Guatemala. Every school in the town participates and has to make a costume. The school presented in the photo is one of the schools I work with called EORM El Mezcal. They chose the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lunch Break

    • Lunch Break

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • This was taken when my Director of the EE sector came for our first meeting to do a needs assesment for a surrounding five villages and the local French school and all its teachers. The women in my village, Daru Thiouben, cooked lunch and carried...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Ghanian mother and I

    • My Ghanian mother and I

    • host families

    • This picture was taken when I was sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolgatanga, Ghana in 2002. My Ghanian mother (pictured) spent hours making this dress and told me we had to dress the same as we're family and it's what you do. I had never...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old One

    • Old One

    • elders

    • I was visiting my host mom (a teacher of Russian) at her school. She and a couple of other tachers where cleaning their classrooms before the school year started. This lady, whom I called "old one" was there to help. She was the regular cleaning...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Our Cook

    • Our Cook

    • Host families;

    • This is a photo of Moti Laal. He was our cook, houskeeper, protector, friend, and true cultural advisor. He dressed up this day to have his photo taken. He is standing outsde of the front door to our bungalow. Note his new attire and the screened...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Parachute English Club

    • Parachute English Club

    • children; games

    • Hand-me-downs are big in Peace Corps and thats exactly how I go this parachute. I used it for my 3rd graders English Club as a reward for good behavior. This is the mushroom game which in involves team work to get the parachute to take on the shape...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picnic

    • Picnic

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; food and meals

    • This photo was taken on June 10, 2007 in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Our group of community development Volunteers decided to conclude our three months of training by inviting our host families to a picnic. Ukrainians and Volunteers mingled around a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pool Tournament

    • Pool Tournament

    • games; health

    • This photo was taken in 2010 in Casas Viejas, El Jicaro, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. I did a pool tournament in which groups of men competed in pool and in between each round listened to a lesson about agriculture practices or sexual health. At the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Processing Palm Kernal Oil

    • Processing Palm Kernal Oil

    • Counterparts; cooking

    • This photo was taken on July 11, 2011, in Ghana. These women are taking the kernels from the oil palm fruit and processing them into oil. This labor intensive process provides an additional source of income during the summer months before the cocoa...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rhythm

    • Rhythm

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Kathryn and Francisco Fernandez are Volunteers in Belmopan, Belize. This photo was taken at in Bermudan Landing at a baboon sanctuary during our first week in country as Trainees. Teaching us to hull rice, among other traditional practices, was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roxana decorates Christmas sugar cookies

    • Roxana decorates Christmas sugar cookies

    • Celebrations; Children; Food and meals

    • I took this photo 2010 at my host family's house in a coastal village in Ecuador. My family in the US sent me a care package full of sugar cookies, sprinkles, and icing so I invited my friends and neighbors over to decorate some traditional...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soccer with the boys

    • Soccer with the boys

    • sports; children

    • After arriving at our host training site, my site-mate and I were brought to play soccer with our host brother's friends. They had never seen a digital camera up close and were posing while Tom played with a few of them in the background.
    • Volunteer Photos

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