This photo was taken in August of 2010 in a smalll village in the Eastern European country of Moldova. During my pre-service training, my host father and I spent many evenings playing our guitars together on the front porch for the rest of the...
The Highland School choir, directed by Peace Corps Volunteer Rand Goldstein, performs at the Kenya Up County Music Festival in Eldoriet on October 29, 1977. The Festival celebrates the traditional music of area tribes and western choral music....
This music school, located in Mozambique, performs in various community events, like the wedding pictured here. At the school, they learn to play instruments, to sing, and to dance traditional dances. Many of the songs that they sing and perform...
This was taken on the last day of school in our training village, Dviri, in the mountains of central Georgia. Trainee Goodloe Harman treated students to a few songs in between classes outside of the village school. June, 2011
In Panama on July 19, 2012, the students of the local school put on a series of skits and musical performances to show appreciation to Padres de Familia.
This photo was taken during the Youth Day activities at my school on February 11th 2011; it shows me dancing with a student on campus. The school administration organized an event with music and dancing for the students on the campus of the school.
My counterpart decided on a whim one day to have an "English party." For two weeks, our students, who barely knew any English, rehearsed "Sleeping Beauty." They made all their own props and costumes and memorized their lines from a book my aunt...
HIV/AIDS; Health; Education; Celebrations; Traditional dress; Music
On World AIDS day the members of the local HIV group MASUPHA (Makete Supplies People Living with HIV/AIDS) marched in the villages of Tanzania. The group members and I were wearing Peace Corps 50th anniversary Khangas made by Peace Corps...