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    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Technology; Youth

    • This photo was taken while my husband taught a Basics of Computers class to a group of young Basotho men in Lesotho. The photo captures him explaining the use of the keyboard for the first time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working in the Milpa

    • Working in the Milpa

    • Food and meals; Agriculture

    • The people seen here are part of large farming family from a small pueblito in Mexico. They go out together to their milpa in the country every Sunday to do whatever is needed to raise maize, peppers, beans, squash, and marigolds (for religious...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working and Learning in the New Computer Lab

    • Working and Learning in the New Computer Lab

    • Technology; Education

    • This photo features a group of 5th graders at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). It was taken November 10, 2009 shortly after the new computers arrived and the desks and painting had been completed. Along...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wood Fire Cooking

    • Wood Fire Cooking

    • Food and meals

    • Although tanks of natural gas are available in this small pueblito in Queretaro, Mexico, families here still cook on open wood fires to a large extent. Trucks selling gas make themselves noisily known as they drive through town with music blaring...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding Day

    • Wedding Day

    • celebrations

    • 15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitos and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waterfall Hike

    • Waterfall Hike

    • Volunteers; terrain

    • A favorite activity of Volunteers in-country was the waterfall hike at Lalo Talie led by Olsen. The hike took us up the river and past (or over) 13 waterfalls. Faleaseela, Samoa. 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waterfall Hike

    • Waterfall Hike

    • Volunteers; terrain

    • A favorite activity of Volunteers in country was the waterfall hike at Lalo Talie led by Olsen. The hike took us up the river and past (or over) 13 waterfalls. Faleaseela, Samoa. 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer Michael Falletti

    • Volunteer Michael Falletti

    • Children

    • Me, shortly after my arrival in-country, with the village children in Ouahigouya (Why-E-Goo-Ya), a village in northern Burkina. Shortly after, I relocated to my permanent teaching assignment in the western city of Bobo-Dioulasso.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vacation

    • Vacation

    • Volunteers; terrain

    • Peace Corps Volunteers Cale and Sara Reeves found their favorite spot to relax and rejuvenate at Jane's Beach Fales in the village of Manase on the big island of Savai'i. Their trips there were infrequent, as it took almost eight hours to travel by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tsunami

    • Tsunami

    • Natural disasters; Terrain

    • September 29, 2009 a tsunami hit the south side of our island, Upolu. Cale and I joined other volunteers and the Red Cross the next morning to search for bodies in an utterly devastate landscape. We also made a trip to the south side the following...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Transporting Computers

    • Transporting Computers

    • art; technology

    • This is a photo of an original watercolor painted by a fellow PCV. It depicts one of my secondary projects - bringing donated computers to my school by whatever means necessary. I was a teacher at Khwalala Day Secondary School, Mulanje District,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Times, They Are a-Changing

    • Times, They Are a-Changing

    • Technology; Host families

    • When I arrived in Cuisnahuat in 2003 few people knew what the internet was. When I left in 2005 most had never used a computer, much less been online. Nothing could have come a a bigger shock than the fact that when I came back in 2010 I was able...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Children

    • Three young boys stand in the window of a small library in Catacamas, Honduras. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. April, 1969.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Importance of Using Soap

    • The Importance of Using Soap

    • children; health; Host families

    • Photo was taken in my host family compound one day after school. I was leading the children in an improptu lesson about hand-washing and using soap to kill germs. They got creative and things got a little out of hand!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Terrain; Urban sites

    • View of Tegucigalpa, Honduras at dusk from the hillside barrio where a Peace Corps Volunteer photographer during his years in Honduras. February, 1970.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Technology in Turkey

    • Technology in Turkey

    • Schools; Host community; Technology

    • 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 Photos

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