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    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • housing

    • While traveling to the southern part of Sierra Leone to experience marine fisheries harvesting, I went through the village of Sulima, pictured here. Homes and surrounding grounds were made of all natural materials and emaculately kept.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • View From the Front Door

    • View From the Front Door

    • Terrain; Housing

    • In this small village in East Java, Indonesia this was a common view at sunset from the front door of my home stay during training. The mountain in view is Panderman Mountain.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • View of the Lake and Farmers' Homes

    • View of the Lake and Farmers' Homes

    • Housing

    • Pig farmers lived in this brick house across from my apartment building. I heard the pigs squealing as they were killed. In the background is a modern white building in the city of Neijiang, across the river from our village near Neijiang Teachers'...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Walkway

    • Walkway

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken in fall 2010 during my site visit to Cambodia. This picture shows the space between the wall of my bedroom and the floor.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills

    • I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Water and sanitation; Housing

    • Out my second story window, you can see my latrine (orange door) and kitchen straight ahead and shower to the left. Some of the year, there was a water basin, but I treated the water with bleach because there was algae and mosquitoes.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Machine

    • Washing Machine

    • Work; Housing

    • This picture was taken by my sister Karen when she came to visit me in Nicaragua in 2001. I got to wash our clothes by hand on the pila, a concrete washboard and sink. This was a source of great amusement and connection with my grandmother who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Three

    • We Three

    • Housing; Traditional dress; Children

    • In our house on the compound of Akrokerr Teacher Training College. Traditional Kente cloth hangs on the wall, Adinkra cloth covers the table.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Transportation; Housing

    • Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Winter View from Balcony

    • Winter View from Balcony

    • Climate; Housing

    • As someone who has lived in Los Angeles for 20 years, the Ukrainian winters were quite different than anything I had experienced before. This photo was taken in January 2005 from my balcony in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Writing in my Journal

    • Writing in my Journal

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken in 1990. Sitting at my dining table, I wrote in my journal daily during my Peace Corps service in Antigua, West Indies. On the wall above me is a map of the Eastern Caribbean where I called home at this time in my life. On...
    • Volunteer Photos

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