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.
I took this photo at the end of a long day of harvesting and preparing the first crop of habenaro peppers. The peppers are in and on the two vehicles parked behind the villagers packed in reused mesh onion bags. The peppers had been the project...
This photo goes with a previous photo of the the San Jose Pepper Growers group shot around the loaded vehicles. This was a detail of the process of stemming the peppers to prepare them for being placed in the bags for shipping. The work is taking...
This farmer was taught how to build a fish and raise tilapia by Elizabeth as part of the Peace Corps' Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project. Here he has taken some of his harvest to the town of Isoka, Zambia to sell, tying one kilogram (kg) of...
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...
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...
Kids were always saying, "Santa never comes to the Philippines!" Kim and I needed to remedy the situation so we bought toothbrushes, sound makers, etc. for 100 kids. I used the cotton from the first aid kit to make a beard, Kim sewed a hat, and I...
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.
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...
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...
Ernie is showing neighbor children Behrouz Salehi and Shahab Daregari what he is doing to prepare the pesticide to spray on the fruit trees. This photo was taken at our house in Kerend, Iran, Summer 1970
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...
This is a photo of myself and some of my favorite people in Meri, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon! This picture was taken in 2010 at my friend/coworker, Alphonse’s house. He was the most honest, kind and hard working person I was...
This is me and two of my site mates hosting a booth for our town's annual Agro-Fair. We had just gotten there and were trying to explain our servicesto the citizens of Camiguin.