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    • Farmers in the Village of Gahvareh

    • Farmers in the Village of Gahvareh

    • ACTION; Agriculture; Host community friends

    • ACTION/ Peace Corps Volunteer is an agricultural is an agricultural extension agent in the village of Gahvareh, Iran. He is shown examining the leaves of a youngtrr with an Iranian gardener.
    • Agency Photos
    • Manuela Condori shearing her sheep

    • Manuela Condori shearing her sheep
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    • The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cora at Home

    • Cora at Home
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    • My dear friend, Cora, in front of her newly-updated home in El Paragua, La Republica Dominicana. The kitchen is the new addition on the left. Previously, her "kitchen" had consisted of a fire pit in the middle of the front room of her house. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grammie!

    • Grammie!
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    • This is a picture of Halima Abdou with her grand child. The picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Father and Daughter

    • Father and Daughter
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    • I was a Volunteer from 1984-1986 in Pajiza, in the province of Sta Elena, Ecuador. This gentleman owned one of the two stores in town, and this is the youngest of his two daughters.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Girls (and Sir)

    • My Girls (and Sir)
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    • After being away from the village for a week, I came home and found this- my girls and my small gentleman playing on the ground outside of our compound. they were so excited that their very own foreign entertainment was finally home and when I took...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Liberian Children in My Front Yard

    • Liberian Children in My Front Yard
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    • I took this photo sometime in 1976, in my front yard as the sun was setting. I lived in "the round house" on the beach, behind the Peace Corps compound in Monrovia. The children were my neighbors who spent many hours sitting in my living room...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aissatou Roasting a Marshmallow

    • Aissatou Roasting a Marshmallow
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    • My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, where I was posted, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make s’mores and the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • FES Work Crew

    • FES Work Crew
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    • This is Ed and Sue with our local work crew (and friends). The project we were assigned was called Improved Temotu Traditional Agriculture (ITTA), a tree crop farming system based on traditional tree crops, such as breadfruit, several varieties of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Judith and her Fishponds

    • Judith and her Fishponds
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    • This photo is of Judith, more often known as BanaEster, at her farm near Kazembe, Zambia in 2007. She's standing in front of two of her fishponds. As an aquaculture Volunteer, I worked with BanaEster on expanding her fish ponds and improving...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Family Affair

    • A Family Affair
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    • Fish farmer Papa Ngwanza adds compost to his pond with his two boys. The program was called Projet Pisiculture Familiale, or Family Fish Project, and had just celebrated its 10th anniversary when this picture was taken in 1988.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hassana and Zina

    • Hassana and Zina
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    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in September 2010. The woman on the left is Hassana Garba who taught me how to pound and winnow my own millet. The other woman is Zina Hashimu, Hassana's...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laughter at Lunch

    • Laughter at Lunch
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    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. These are three of my closest neighbors and friends eating tup (boiled millet mush) with okra sauce. From left to right are Zali Sanushi with her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style

    • Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style
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    • This photo taken on August 27th, 2006 shows my wife and I engaged in the classic Paraguayan ritual with our favorite progressive farmer in our site in Paraguay. Sharing the indigenous green tea, yerba mate, with a communal cup is the universal way...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dauda

    • Dauda
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    • This is me and my friend, Dauda, during my training in Guinea-Bissau (June-September 1995). Dauda sold used clothes in the market in Gabu and taught me the importance of drinking tea and sitting in Fula culture. Dauda was patient with my language...
    • Volunteer Photos

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