I am in Chinguetti with teacher colleagues after a camel caravan from Atar to Chinguetti. We were exploring the beautiful ruins of old buildings around Chinguetti, which you see here in the background. I am the third from the left in this photo.
This photo was taken by a RPCV at "Prolisok," just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine. "Prolisok" is where we spent our first nights in Ukraine, so it is a place of vivid memories for our entire group.
Terrain; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Environment
A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive.
I had gotten up...
The blue in the Ukrainian flag represents the blue sky, while the yellow represents their golden wheat fields. I took this picture behind the school in Rudky. While the yellow is not full of wheat, it is full of yellow flowers appearing to make...
I took this picture early in the morning while taking a visiting fellow Volunteer to the bus stop at my site. The building on the left-hand side is a small general store. The mountains in the distance are Myanmar.
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...
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...
Terrain; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Environment
This is a picture of the road leading out of my town, Kibaya, Tanzania. There are many farms and gardens out this way which the local women tend to everyday. Photo was taken Spring 2011.
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...
This occurred on my way to my village in Mauritania, West Africa (2007-2009). On my way home after finishing sessions for new Volunteers during the rainy season, I witnessed this sandstorm roaring across the desert. When it hit the town I was in,...
I took this photo while on patrol for poachers in the Kalahari Desert in the African summer of 1995. These people are part of the San Bushmen tribe and are said to be the very beginnings of our human race. They are capable of living happily in...
This is a picture of a lake in Ukraine at the end of fall. My group and I are lucky enough to be able to study the Russian language during training not far from this lake. It is a great view in the mornings on our way to class.
This was the view during my bike ride home after a long day of Peace Corps training. Taken in January, 2011, in Ayutthaya, Thailand, the rice fields allowed for a perfect look at the setting sun. Thailand exports more rice than any other country...
View of Tegucigalpa, Honduras at dusk from the hillside barrio where a Peace Corps Volunteer photographer during his years in Honduras. February, 1970.
I took this photo while visiting a fellow PCV in Laoang, Philippines, on May 14, 2011. We had both just arrived in country as Peace Corps Response Volunteers two weeks before. My friend wanted to show me the beautiful white sand swimming beaches...
This was taken in the May of 2010 in a Ukrainian village. This lake meant a lot to me. After the intense daily routine of PST, it was very relaxing to walk past this lake on the way back home everyday.