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    • Promoting Water Conservation

    • Promoting Water Conservation

    • Children; Natural disasters; Art; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation

    • Following the tsunami of 2009, Peace Corps Volunteers partnered with the Red Cross to promote water conservation and provide an afternoon of enjoyment in the midst of sadness and loss. Volunteers from groups 80, 81 and 82, led by Volunteer Joey...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Clean Up

    • Community Clean Up

    • Anniversaries; Secondary projects; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Mozambique 16 Peace Corps Trainees (PCT) Morgan, Kelly and Allison gave a helping hand to their training community on June 12th, 2011 by cleaning up the local hospital. PCT homestay families also participated in the event. The event was planned by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching English

    • Teaching English

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Out of My Skin

    • Out of My Skin

    • Animals; Secondary projects

    • This photo was taken on June 10, 2011 at 4 a.m. The cow was purchased by the school committee and later killed in order to raise much needed funds for the local elementary school. More than $200 was made by selling the meat. Don Daniel and myself...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The School Garden

    • The School Garden

    • Secondary projects; Children; Agriculture; Environment

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in the village of Las Palmeras outside of the city of Rivas. I worked with this group of children ages 5-10 at their school to create a tree nursery and organic garden. This project ultimately fulfilled the goal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bricks

    • Bricks

    • Children; Secondary projects

    • Two fellow Volunteers and I collaborated to present a cookstove demonstration at my site in Madagascar. The community was all invited to participate, including children, to get the messiest part of the job done. This is some of the children and I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Jumping for Joy...and for a Playground!

    • Jumping for Joy...and for a Playground!

    • Secondary projects

    • This photo includes RPCV Teresa Havenar and Volunteer Patrick. It also includes two children, Alyona and Igor, that attended the school I was working at and who also helped build our playground. We were jumping for excitement over the delivery...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating Accomplishment Together

    • Celebrating Accomplishment Together

    • Secondary projects; Counterparts

    • This photo was taken on August 4th, 2011 at the grand opening of the newly renovated firehouse which facilitated the creation of fire safety and prevention program for my town Macedonia. The cake displays the logo of the fire department and the 3...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Finishing Touches on the Seesaws

    • Finishing Touches on the Seesaws

    • Secondary projects; Children

    • Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows Richard Johnsen (myself) painting the seesaws before the grand opening of the town playground of Canlaon, Negros Oriental, Philippines. With the approval of the town mayor and the help of town workers, the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Town Children Take Over the Seesaws.

    • Town Children Take Over the Seesaws.

    • Secondary projects; Children

    • Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows how enthusiastically the town children (Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philippines) adopted the new seesaws, overseen by Volunteers Roger and Richard and approved by the town mayor, Mr. Bautista.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roger and Richard and Playground Workers

    • Roger and Richard and Playground Workers

    • Secondary projects

    • In Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philipines, Volunteers Richard and Roger worked with the city to plan and build a public playground for the children of this rural area. The photo shows us measuring out the site of the seesaws. Taken...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • English Class

    • English Class

    • Secondary projects; Teachers and students

    • During the months when kids are out of school, they either have to work in the fields or spend their days looking for things to entertain themselves. In an effort to better introduce ourselves to the community and give the kids a fun, good...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Game Count at CCF

    • Game Count at CCF

    • Secondary projects; Animals; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken in 2009 at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. It shows the people that were involved in an annual game count at CCF. This joint effort involved CCF staff, invited Volunteers from around Namibia, international...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drama

    • Drama

    • Secondary projects

    • This photo was taken at the Joy Centre in Namibia. It is a residential/rehabilitation center for street kids. This shows some of their kids putting on a drama about teenage pregnancy--the daughter is telling the mother she's pregnant. Drama is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Giant Chess

    • Giant Chess

    • Youth development; Schools; Secondary Projects

    • This picture was taken just after we finished painting a giant chess board on the gravel lot outside my school attachment. We decided to make the pieces out of recycled bottles. In the picture is me and the youth and sports teacher.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Blindness, Not Vision-Less

    • Blindness, Not Vision-Less

    • Youth; Secondary projects

    • These two Grenadian students are visually impaired and just completed the first-ever, "Resource Centre for the Blind Walkathon" on May 27, 2009. We had just walked 2.5 miles through town and settled down to eat refreshments and proceed with the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Promoting a Clean Environment

    • Promoting a Clean Environment

    • Youth; Environment; Secondary projects

    • I took this photo during an Ecological Campaign on May 6, 2010 next to the St. John's Cathedral park in Comrat the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Gagauzia in Moldova. Much of my work as a Volunteer involved coordinating social actions...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Puchov Playground

    • Puchov Playground

    • Secondary projects

    • Took this photo on my return to Slovakia in May 2005, four years after I left. It is the playground that was built after our successful public relations campaign that included grant writing, community involvement and fund raising. *Note that my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • Youth development; Secondary projects

    • A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
    • Volunteer Photos

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