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    • Creative Center Grand Opening

    • Creative Center Grand Opening

    • celebrations; artisans

    • To mark the grand opening of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta, a center funded by the donors of Peace Corps Partnership and community members of ADEC-Togo, I marched to the doors for the ribbon cutting with village chiefs and members of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waiting to March

    • Waiting to March

    • Celebrations; Children

    • This photo includes young girls before marching in their school parade. The event was the Paz del Chaco. The photo was taken on June 11, 2011 in Juan O'Leary.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Feok Festival

    • Feok Festival

    • Celebrations; Host community friends

    • This was taken at the annual Feok Festival in Sandema, UER, Ghana - 2002. It is the harvest celebration and also the celebration of the Builsa people fighting off the slave raider Babatu. The Builsas are a proud people as you can see from the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Celebration of Waste

    • A Celebration of Waste

    • Celebrations; Water and sanitation

    • This photo was taken in June 2006 at the launching of the solid waste manangement project in two neighborhoods in Senegal. There was a lot of excitement and celebrations for this project as residents were tired of living in a dirty city. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Children and Me

    • Village Children and Me

    • Children; Celebrations

    • During one of many local celebrations, I took a photo with children in my village. The celebration was near my house and these were the kids I saw regularly. The picture was taken on September 27, 2009 in Batié, Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chaco Parade, Juan O'Leary 2011

    • Chaco Parade, Juan O'Leary 2011

    • Children; Celebrations

    • I took this picture on June 11, 2011 at the Paz del Chaco parade in Juan O'Leary. It's a holiday celebrating a peace agreement between Paraguay and Bolivia. This photos shows a young girl lined up with her class
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Here Comes the Queen

    • Here Comes the Queen

    • Dignitaries; Celebrations

    • I took this photo at the President's Day celebration in Nkroful, Ghana on April 3, 2004. The President was welcomed by many local chief's and their wives in a grand celebration. A very colorful event.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hail to the Chief

    • Hail to the Chief

    • Dignitaries; Celebrations

    • I took this photo at the President's Day celebration on April 3rd, 2004 in Nkroful, Ghana. Many of the local chiefs had came to honor the president.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2011 in Burkina Faso

    • World AIDS Day 2011 in Burkina Faso

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations; Art

    • Volunteers Luis, Scott, and Joey commemorate World AIDS day 2011 with their community in Burkina Faso. The mural was a great way to get the community interested in talking about HIV/AIDS. The Volunteers held multiple information sessions on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Henna Hands

    • Henna Hands

    • host community friends; celebrations

    • This photo was taken in Ait Hamza, Morocco, on my birthday, September 23, 2010. As birthday's are not celebrated here, we had a cross-cultural exchange birthday party, which consisted of mint tea, cake, dancing and henna!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friendship Knows Neither Age nor Color

    • Friendship Knows Neither Age nor Color

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Children; Peace Corps Partnership Program

    • This photo is of Peace Corps Volunteer Tracy with one of many village children she befriended. The occasion is the opening of the first ever playground in her town, built with funds from a Peace Corps Partnership Program grant and help from local...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Two Fathers

    • My Two Fathers

    • Host families; Celebrations

    • My Senegalese host father, Ibrahima Faye, and my American father, Richard Muniz, became fast friends when my parents visited me during my service. March 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • International Women's Day Parade, Maroua Cameroon

    • International Women's Day Parade, Maroua Cameroon

    • International Women's Day; celebrations

    • At the end of the parade celebrating International Women's Day in Maroua, Cameroon this year, this women walked past all the people watching the parade. The crowd initially was silent and then you could hear everyone murmurs of comments erupt. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • International Women's Day; celebrations

    • For International Women's Day, the women leaders of Maroua took a day trip to Pouss to meet their Sultan and to Maga to see the fishing and rice production. I had the honor of being invited to pariticipate. Every place we stopped the villagers...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drumming

    • Drumming

    • Music; Celebrations; Host community

    • This photo includes a volunteer playing the drums of a student before the Paz del Chaco parade on July 11, 2011 in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana. The parade celebrates the end of a war between Paraguay and Bolivia.
    • Volunteer Photos

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