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    • 'Ofa=Love

    • 'Ofa=Love

    • Elders

    • This photo was taken in December 2010 shortly after Tongan Group 76 swear-in. We were invited to 'Ofa's house for a Christmas dinner. She was our language and culture teacher in training. 'Ofa means love and she is so well named. She loved...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "Promoting Peace and Friendship"

    • "Promoting Peace and Friendship"

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); elders

    • PCVs visited the Village of Buteni, Romania on September 8, 2008 to assist a skills training workshop for Roma Girls funded by Peace Corps GAD Romania. They met this wonderful Romania lady who gave information about the life of the Romas in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Funeral Offering to the Widow

    • A Funeral Offering to the Widow

    • Elders; Host community

    • As a school we walked to this widow's house to give her a live pig, bags of rice, bags of fruit, and our money donation (from the faculty). The widow was the wife of a respected member of the school board. She in return gave all the visitors a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Goat and a Mule

    • A Goat and a Mule

    • Animals; Elders

    • Near Zeleznica in the foothills of the Osogovo Mountains in Eastern Macedonia, a woman on the road to Kratovo walks her goat and mule. I took this during a walk outside my site, Kratovo, in March 2003. The woman is from a village and going to town...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Helping Hand

    • A Helping Hand

    • Host community friends; Elders; Gardens

    • Baba Mita was my next door neighbor. I used to help her in the garden and she would give me fresh vegetables at the end of the day. She taught me how to cook many traditional Bulgarian meals and make homemade wine. As most men in the village, her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Look in the Past

    • A Look in the Past

    • Host community friends; Elders

    • My 96-yr old (now 97) Grenadian neighbor was placed in a nursing home facility last year. Her freedom to operate her own home was becoming too burdensome for her, despite her wishes to remain in my community. Her attitude changed with every visit I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Mozambican in South Africa

    • A Mozambican in South Africa

    • elders; community development

    • A Mozambican migrant waits in line on September 3, 2010 at the organization that I work for in order to register for identity documents. In South Africa there are a large number of mobile and undocumented persons, which has implications on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A New Year's Eve to Remember

    • A New Year's Eve to Remember

    • Celebrations; Elders

    • After visiting my host family for Christmas 2004, my now-husband and I were thinking about what to do for New Year's Eve. He remembered his grandfather was from a village nearby, deep in the Balkan mountains, and we decided to catch the bus there...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Active Audience

    • Active Audience

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations; Elders

    • This photo was taken at a Festival of Russian Culture in Vilkova, southern Ukraine in 2009. Many choruses participated, as well as an appreciative audience member! (Note the stance of one of the organizers in the background. She did not seem to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Adoring Grandfather and Grandson

    • Adoring Grandfather and Grandson

    • Host community friends; Elders; Children

    • Children are adored in Tuvalu and this is a photo of a grandfather adoring his grandson and namesake. Chidlren seldomly cried in Tuvalu, they were always being held, and their needs were quickly satisfied. After a child is born, the mother is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • An apple for you!

    • An apple for you!

    • Elders

    • This has to be one of my favorite people I have met in Moldova. He is a man that can be found almost every day-rain or shine- working in the art piața (or art plaza) in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. In addition to his bright clothing, he is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Arzantiiga

    • Arzantiiga

    • elders; agriculture

    • Family heads and local chiefs take a break from a moringa presentation and demonstration to pose with PCV Christy Ross in front of her house in Silmidougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop in July of 2009 marked the beginning of a several secondary...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the local market

    • At the local market

    • Elders

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the Local Market

    • At the Local Market

    • Elders; Markets

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baba and Blueberries

    • Baba and Blueberries

    • Elders; Food and meals; Cooking

    • During the summertime in Bulgaria people work very hard to grow and gather food in their fields and from the forest in order to can and consume throughout the winter. One such example is blueberries. Wild blueberries are abundant in the forests...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baba and Boy

    • Baba and Boy

    • Children; Elders; Host community friends

    • Grandmothers (babi) play a huge role in a family household. Often, the grandmother is the main family member that takes care of the children, cooks and takes care of the overall household chores. It is very common for many generations to live under...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Babas

    • Babas

    • Elders

    • I took this photo in a predominantly Muslim village in the heart of the Rhodope Mountains. The babas (grandmothers) in the picture were walking their horses to an unknown location in their usual attire; loud socks, blue overcoats, and headscarves. ...
    • Volunteer Photos

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