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    • Women Planting Yams

    • Women Planting Yams

    • Environment; Gardens

    • In this photo the wives of FES staff and work crew helped to plant yams in ITTA plot. Yams are one of the staple foods in the Solomon Islanders' diet. Yams are roasted over an open fire, baked in the traditional stone oven, cooked in pot with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stakhanov Garden

    • Stakhanov Garden

    • Host community friends; Pets; Children; Gardens

    • This young lady held our dog for a portrait in the garden outside my home in Ukraine. She was a good friend of my host-family. Every year the garden was full of flowers and vegetables.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Faiza and Her Date

    • Faiza and Her Date

    • Gardens; Children

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. This is Faiza Lowali. She found a date pit and brought it to our house and asked if she could plant it in our tree nurserie. We let her and it grew...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Moringa Trees

    • Moringa Trees

    • Agriculture; Environment; Gardens

    • This is a photo of me with some of my helpers who, along with their parents and the village elders, helped me plant over 600 Moringa seedlings all over Kpendua in the rainy season of 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working The Land With My Host Parents

    • Working The Land With My Host Parents

    • Agriculture; Gardens; Host families

    • On the morning of June 18th, 2011, at 4:00am in Moldova, my host father knocks on the door to my room. I open the door, and am told "today we are going to work the land my son!" I was tired, yet excited. We then proceeded to walk about two miles to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reberao, Brazil

    • Reberao, Brazil

    • Children; Nutrition; Gardens

    • On a Fazenda de Cana (sugar cane planataion) 40 KM west of Recife, Brazil, I spent all of 1970 in a nutrition education program. This photo was taken of me (age 23) with 18 school children in the school garden, built by the children, eaten by the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kabye Yam Mounds

    • Kabye Yam Mounds

    • Gardens; Agriculture

    • Kabye of northern Togo are famous for their gigantic yams. They take great pride in the size of their yam mounds and the enormous size of their yams. The best way to prepare yams is to make fufu. After boiling the yams, women put them in a large...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cabbage Patch Kids

    • Cabbage Patch Kids

    • children; gardens

    • I started a garden at the local hospital at my site in Omaruru, Namibia. 5 women volunteered their time to help me every step of the way. This photo was taken in early 2011 as we were harvesting our garden for the very first time. The women's...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Growing together

    • Growing together

    • gardens; host community friends

    • During my Peace Corps service I started a garden at the local hospital in Omaruru, Namibia. A group of women volunteered their time to help me every step of the way. After a year of working together I was able to purchase Peace Corps shirts for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Farmer Paul

    • Farmer Paul

    • Gardens; Host families

    • This is photo is of me during pre-service training woking in the garden at my host families house. The woman is Lena, my host mother. The photo was taken in April of 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Digging for Our Future

    • Digging for Our Future

    • Agriculture; Gardens

    • This picture was taken in December of 2010 in Tanzania. It was during a day long training on high yield gardening. The participants were host country nationals and Peace Corps Volunteers. We all dug our hands and minds into the process that day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picking Cherries

    • Picking Cherries

    • Host families; gardens

    • This photo was taken in my host family's garden in Moldova, where I helped my host sister pick cherries this summer. My petite host sister climbed far up into the tree to reach the cherries still left at the very top, and then tossed them down,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • La Huerta

    • La Huerta

    • Gardens; Volunteers

    • This photo is of two volunteers helping a local resident to plant a garden. The photo was taken on June 15, 2011 in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Planting a Garden in the Village

    • Planting a Garden in the Village

    • Gardens

    • Taken in 1990. Here I am planting a garden in my backyard with a village girl, Lois (who is a grown woman now). With the dry desert climate of the island of Antigua, West Indies, this turned out to be a challenging project and ultimately did not...
    • Volunteer Photos

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