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- Deyed Marozh/ Santa Claus
- Schools; Celebrations; Host community friends
- The largest common celebration of the former Soviet Eastern Europe is the New Year. The New Year is ushered in by Deyed Marozh or Grandfather Frost, who looks a lot like Santa Claus, and whose purpose is to bring happiness and hope for the new...
- Volunteer Photos
- Karaganda Wedding Party
- Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends
- I was honored when my friend Lyuba asked me to be the maid of honor at her wedding in October, 1994. This photo shows the newlyweds in the center with the best man on the left and me on the right.
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Times (Winter 2006)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Winter, 2006).
- Newsletters
- Helping My Host Community Members Herd Sheep During Summer
- Animals; Terrain; Host community; Agriculture
- I am herding sheep in the coldest peak of one the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan. I loved helping my host community every time I had free time.
- Volunteer Photos
- Shopping in Swahili
- Housing; Host community friends; Host community
- A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She is sparsely furnished, has a number of Kenyan artifacts. She does her shopping, as shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking...
- Agency Photos
- Shopping in Swahili
- Host community friends; Host community
- A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She does her shopping, shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking on a wood burning stove.
- Agency Photos
- Breakfast in Kilibwoni
- Housing; Host community friends; Host community
- A Volunteer has breakfast with other Volunteers in their house in Kilibwoni. One Volunteer teaches history and geograpghy in the harambee secondary school in Kilibwoni. The other teaches english in the same school. The Volunteer to the right works...
- Agency Photos
- Breakfast with Friends in Kilibwoni
- Host community; Host community friends
- A Volunteer has breakfast with other Volunteers in their house in Kilibwoni. One of them teaches history and geograpghy in the harambee secondary school in Kilibwoni. The other teaches english in the same school. The last Volunteer works in a...
- Agency Photos
- Lunch in Kilibwoni With Friends
- Host community; Host community friends
- Volunteers have lunch together at their house in Kilibwoni, Kenya. Two of them are teachers in the Harambee secondary school there and the other works in community development in a slum area ouside Nairobi.
- Agency Photos
- Eating With Another PCV
- Host community friends; Host community
- A Volunteer is an ag extension agent on settlements in the Kakamega District of Kenya. He works mostly in dairy and maize--also visits farmers and advises them on ways to improve their methods of raising maize, cattle feeding, and paddocking etc....
- Agency Photos
- Chatting With a Merchant
- Host community; Host community friends
- A PCV Volunteer teaches English in secondary school. She is speaking with a merchant in town.
- Agency Photos
- Students Take a Break to Play Some Music
- Host community friends; Host community
- Kenya Perlmon
- Agency Photos
- Sitting on the Stoop with Baba Stoyakovich
- Host community friends
- I was greeted coming home from language training each day by an 84-year old grandmother next door. She often gave me fruit or boiled potatoes, and invited me to sit down and chat, though we could not understand each other. In this photo, I was...
- Volunteer Photos
- Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style
- Food and meals; Host community; Host community friends
- 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
- Banana-powered Bicycles
- Host community; Transportation; Host community friends
- This photo was taken August 25th, 2007 along the Pan-American Highway near my site in Paraugay. It shows my wife and I joking with Paraguayans about how we get around on banana-powered bicycles.
- Volunteer Photos
- School of Journalism Instructors
- Host community friends; Women in Peace Corps
- Local newspaper offered a journalism course during the evening that I attended as a student. I received a certificate of completion at a graduation ceremony in 1974. This program provided me an opportunity to improve my Portuguese language skills...
- Volunteer Photos
- Newborn Goat
- Host community friends
- I hiked from my village on foot to my nearest PC neighbor. Along the way I took a break with this nice man and pet his newborn goat. He was washing for prayer
- Volunteer Photos
- Little Grown-ups in Niger
- Host community friends; Celebrations; Traditional dress
- This photo was taken on the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Fitr, known in Hausa as "Salla," which follows a month of fasting. These girls are from the village of Zongo Mozague, where I was fortunate enough to spend a year of my Peace Corps Niger Service....
- Volunteer Photos
- Visiting Tuareg Camp after a Rain in Niger
- Host community friends; Traditional dress; Children
- While backpacking around the village of Illela, where I lived, I met a Tuareg extended family living in the wadi. We became good friends, and I frequently spent my Sunday's with them, playing with the children, telling stories, and drinking camel's...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Tuareg Hairstyle
- Host community friends
- In 1976, on my weekend visits with Tuareg friends in the wadi outside of Illela, Niger, I would frequently sit while my friends braided my hair.
- Volunteer Photos