I painted this mural of a couple dancing, in traditional Guanacaste dress, on the exterior of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It is part of a large mural project I led with the students consisting of cultural...
Tom was teaching a very energetic student. This student was smart, but didn't know how to interact with her surroundings. Tom made it an effort to illustrate 'raising hands' as a respectful way to get someone's attention.
Taken at Liceo San Jose del Rio Sucio in La Colonia, Costa Rica, this photo shows my husband, Chris Hall, working with a group of eighth grade boys. During their free period the boys took Chris up on his offer for an English review session; the...
On my first visit to my village's school, the moment the kids saw me, they went nuts. The ones in the photo did not have an supervision, so they stormed out of the classrooms to look at the tall American who just came to their small school in...
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
Children; Education; Work; Schools; Teachers and students;
This is the first World Map Project Map in what was to become a standard Peace Corps activity worldwide. It is in the school in Hondo Valle, Dominican Republic. Volunteer Barbara Jo White is working with two high school students on the map. It was...
1987, Botswana, Molepolole College of Education in the village of Molepolole. This was my first graduating class: Tiny, Soks, Shelia, Dennis, Kelone, Old Man, Debra, Dolly, Rejoice, and teacher - -Manatsa.
This was written about me in our College...
Poro, Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines.
June 2011.
Our NGO was holding a DIsaster Risk Reduction program. The School was part of the refuge area for pretend victims. I was sitting wating for lunch and I noticed the old fashion attendance board....
This photo was take on Teacher's Day 2010 in Mongolia, where students show their appreciation to their teachers through song and by presenting small gifts.
Teachers and students; Camps and clubs; Schools; Celebrations
This photo was taken in November 2009 shortly after I arrived at my site in Kazakhstan. This was one of the first English Clubs I held in the local Kazakh school. The photo shows myself and the children, and their completed Thanksgiving turkeys...
Schools; Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Food and meals
I was teaching Conversational English in two high schools, one was Colegiul Baptist. This picture was at the teacher's cafeteria of Colegiul National Elena Ghiba-Birta in Arad, the then director of the school Doamna Iegariu poses for the camera in...
In 2001 my husband, who was not in the Peace Corps, and I visited Turkey. Huseyin, a former student from 45 years ago, invited us to stay with him and his family in Istanbul. On our own, we visited Kirikhan, my site which is in southeastern Turkey....
Volunteer Aliyya Shelley teaching life skills in a rural community in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. In this class, she is teaching prevention to HIV.
Teachers and students; Celebrations; Schools; Secondary projects
This photo was taken in November 2009 at Pandamatenga Primary School in Pandamatenga, Botswana. This was the end of the school year and we wanted to take a photo with the teacher and his standard 2 (equivalent of 1st grade) class, whom I was...
Celebrating a hard fought but entertaining win at the Teachers' Day Games between the Teachers and the students at the Kharkiv Gymnasium, Kharkiv Ukraine.
This photo is of an education volunteer introducing teachers to methods of buliding an interest for reading amongst their students. It was taken at La Escuela Resident in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana on July 3, 2011.