Host families; Traditional dress; Secondary projects; Celebrations
This photo was taken in April of 2010 in the Tsa'chila village of El Poste, Ecuador. Here, I am dressed in traditional Tsa'chila attire with my host family in front of a garden we planted together. The garden sits between two new tourist huts we...
I took this photo in May 2010 at a Catholic primary school in Togo, West Africa. This was a HIV/AIDS training teaching students the characteristics of the disease, prevention, living with it, etc. This photo shows the students representing every...
I took this photo during the middle of the construction of a grain storage warehouse in December 2009 in a village in Togo, West Africa. This was the first major project of any size for the village and everyone wanted to chip in some effort. This...
Children; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation
While building wells in a rural community in the hottest months of the year (April), I stumbled upon this little guy trying to cool off inside a chamber pot.
One of my favorite jobs in Morocco was mentoring youth at a juvenile facility in Fes, the country's oldest city. Some of the kids joined me for a candid moment after an attempt to teach them a few words in English in the fall of 2006.
The photo was taken in Athiru Gaiti, Kenya in December of 2010. My students and I built a brick pizza oven near the start of my service and this pictures shows the final time I made pizza with them. We also painted the Peace Corps logo on the...
This photo was taken in 2006 at the district primary school, in the province of Ra in Fiji, where I served from 2005-2007. After completing our World Map project at Saivou District School, I wanted the kids to see themselves how much they had...
This photo was taken inside a classroom at a men's prison in July of 2008 in Concepcion, Paraguay. I organized a world map mural with eight prisoners who were working on achieving their high school diplomas while they finished their prison...
This photo was taken in San Francisco la Union, Guatemala in 2009. I was serving as a rural home preventive health Volunteer. The health center, local midwives and myself put together three community wide raffles to raise funds to pruchase an...