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    • Last Bell Ceremony

    • Last Bell Ceremony

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Work; Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This picture was taken on May 31st, 2007 on the last day of school at Zhovkva Secondary School Number 1 in Western Ukraine. These three girls have just finished first grade and are wearing traditional Ukrainian clothing. They're holding flowers...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ground Breaking Ceremony

    • Ground Breaking Ceremony

    • Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This is a photo that I took of the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2004 for the new Youth Training Center in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. It was a grand ceremony with everyone getting dressed up for the local member of parliament.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Children; Youth; Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations

    • Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Group of Friends

    • Group of Friends

    • Host families; Traditional dress

    • A photo of me with a group of friends after everyone was dressing up for some photos before I went home for a vacation (I was sort of extended family) eating most of my meals and spending a lot of free time with this group and their husbands and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Typical Mayan Dress

    • Typical Mayan Dress

    • Traditional dress

    • Taken in April, 2011 in Guatemala. My host sister, myself, and sister in-law (blonde) on the roof of my house, with the town (like Hollywood) sign in the background. Celebrating culture, womanhood...and clothes!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • futbol

    • futbol

    • Traditional dress; Children; housing; Games

    • I love introducing my children to friends I made when serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. In this photo my son Alberto is playing soccer with Enrique Reynoso, the son of a friend I met during community base training in Santa Cruz del...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tortillas

    • Tortillas

    • Traditional dress; Cooking

    • Taken March, 2011 in Guatemala. My sister in-law and father in-law came to visit our village. One of the many cross-cultural activities we did was to share favorite cuisines. Here we are breaking all the rules... the men made tortillas and we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dressed like a Moroccan

    • Dressed like a Moroccan

    • Traditional dress; Host families

    • I love Moroccan clothing and so I couldn't wait to try them on. I was thrilled when one of my host relatives suggested that I wear a Kaftan at a dinner party. My aunts and cousins dressed me up in this fabulous dress that was a bit long for me, but...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • morning coffee with the nana staras

    • morning coffee with the nana staras

    • Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Traditional dress

    • This photo was taken in July outside of my school the south west mountains of Bulgaria. In my community, which is 100% Bulgarian Muslim the women have a traditional dress that includes a head scarf and colorful pants called shalvary. Through out...
    • Volunteer Photos

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