Food and meals; Environment; Agriculture; Children
This girl is picking a mango with a long stick with a hook at the end on March 6, 2010 in Mali. Mango season is the tastiest of all the Malian seasonal changes. The girl's younger brother will stand underneath the branch once she hooks the stem,...
Friends were many...friendships were deep. We laughed together, we cried together, we worked hard together and played together. This picture is of Vicki at a feast event (fakaala) with a young friend.
Volunteers Tim, Emily, Shannon and I are sampling some of the fare at the House of Flavour rasta shop in Georgetown, Guyana. Don't always judge your meal by the looks...this was GREAT, and the fact that it cost less than $2.00 was even better! ...
For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti in 1984, all of the volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice...
For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery Volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
Celebrations; Women's movement; Food and meals; International Women's Day
International Women's Day Celebration in Niue, South Pacific in 2000. The women gathered to show their crafts, watch and perform in dances and songs and of course, eat delicious Niuean food! This was the buffet table - as colorful as the women...
Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Several times a year my fellow teachers at Ebn Sina High School, in Kangavar, Iran, would picnic in the woods along a stream just outside of town, as pictured here in...
Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Once a year several of my fellow high school teachers in Kangavar, Iran, would select some of their best students and reward them with a picnic. Picnics were in the...
Business development; Income generation; Training; Food and meals
Construction of a demonstration solar copra dryer, Nukulaelae atoll, January 1982. The solar dryer was constructed by a group of local workers trained by the Volunteer and utilized mainly local materials including chain sawn coconut timber. The...
This was the last dinner I had with my host family before I left training. This is in the city of Chernigov--my host mother is the blond woman at the far left. The person sitting next to me is another Peace Corps Volunteer with her host mother. I...
Pictured are Volunteers from Group 11 serving Albania from 2008 through 2010. One of the Community and Organizational Development Volunteers worked closely with Birra Korca to demonstrate marketing and branding strategies to university students....
Close to the apartment where I lived in Arad, the driver in this classic Dacia had fallen asleep. In the back were loaves of bread. During in-service training I stayed with a host family in Ploiesti (I felt I was the luckiest of Volunteers to have...
Schools; Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Food and meals
I was teaching Conversational English in two high schools, one was Colegiul Baptist. This picture was at the teacher's cafeteria of Colegiul National Elena Ghiba-Birta in Arad, the then director of the school Doamna Iegariu poses for the camera in...