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    • Volunteer Plays Game with Men of the Village

    • Volunteer Plays Game with Men of the Village

    • Games; Rural sites; Community development; Health; Education

    • This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer relaxes by playing “African Crackers” with some of the men of Ony Babre village.
    • San Bartolome Jocotenango

    • San Bartolome Jocotenango

    • Rural sites; terrain

    • A tiny, indigenous town in the middle of the mountains in the department of Quiche, Guatemala, a beautiful place that has kept up the traditions of the K'iche people as well as the language. I took this photo my first month, and while sitting on...
    • The Long and Winding Road

    • The Long and Winding Road

    • Rural sites; Terrain; Environment

    • While on the way to a community called Muluva, I took this photo. Not only was it during the dry season, but it was during one of the worst dry seasons that Guatemala had experienced in a long time. The path winds through the mountains with almost...
    • Life at the Top of a Mountain

    • Life at the Top of a Mountain

    • Rural sites; Terrain; Environment

    • This photo was taken on a home visit. The mother of the house is all alone because the children have gone off to school and she has finished all the household chores. Her house, though simple, is well-kept and not to mention has an amazing view.
    • The Rising Sun

    • The Rising Sun

    • Terrain; Rural sites

    • Everyday that I walked to work at the Health Center, I took a shortcut over this hill with the broken down adobe house on one side and the new adobe house on the other, complete with a family of 10. This morning I was waiting for my companion, and...
    • Infinite Laundry

    • Infinite Laundry

    • Terrain; Rural sites

    • I snapped this photo while at a home visit of a house located way up in the mountains. It reflects the chores of daily life, which are bound within the home, but whose effects stretch out into infinity, which is represented by the rolling green...
    • A Meeting Between Mountains

    • A Meeting Between Mountains

    • Terrain; Rural sites; Host community friends; Environment

    • On the way back from a community visit, my companion meets up with other members of the community coming back from the main pueblo. I had walked on without realizing that she had stopped and when I turned around I found the difference between the...
    • Looking Out My Front Door

    • Looking Out My Front Door

    • Weather; Rural sites

    • This was the view out the front door of my house in the pueblo. That particular day, a storm had just swept in as the neighbor began to burn his yard. The smoke rose up and danced with the wind as I went inside to grab my camera and try to capture...
    • Working Cowboys

    • Working Cowboys

    • Youth; Work; Rural sites

    • While we were conducting a home visit, these two boys came tromping back from working out in the fields. They were instantly curious as to who the strangers in their house were. They looked so cute in their matching cowboy hats that I asked to take...
    • Volunteer Weigh in an Ivorien Child

    • Volunteer Weigh in an Ivorien Child

    • Nurses; Children; Health; Education; Rural sites; Community development

    • This Volunteer works in a Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer and her co-worker help weigh in an Ivorien child at the health classes the Peace Corps has established in Ony Babre. In Africa...
    • Volunteer Rides Horse From Village to Village

    • Volunteer Rides Horse From Village to Village

    • Rural sites

    • This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...

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