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,...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
Maternal and child health; Health; Terrain; Host community
I took this picture in my site, Santa Barbara, Huehuetenango, which is a rural Mayan community in the western highlands of Guatemala Its a picture of a nurse I worked with getting ready to vaccinate a baby.
In this small village in East Java, Indonesia this was a common view at sunset from the front door of my home stay during training. The mountain in view is Panderman Mountain.
I took this photo in March of 2009, and it is of Volcán Pacaya within the department of Escuintla, Guatemala. This photo shows a Guatemalan man taking in the beauty of the natural landscape surrounding him at Pacaya.