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    • Special Tasting

    • Special Tasting

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • While tasting wines at the roadside shops in Areni, Armenia this particular vendor took us to her garage for a special tasting.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Armenian Hospitality

    • Armenian Hospitality

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Food and meals

    • Armenians are known for being incredibly hospitable. You can always expect to be invited in for a coffee and candy.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wine Sellers

    • Wine Sellers

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • Tsorik helps her daughter-in-law sell wine at their roadside stand in Areni, Armenia.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wise Old Man

    • Wise Old Man

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • This man paused to tell stories of the river we were photographing for a story about trash in Armenia's rivers. He was reminiscing about how as a young boy he used to swim in the spot we were photographing.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Siapo Artisan

    • Siapo Artisan

    • Artisans; Host community; Traditional dress

    • Siapo (or tapa) is a cloth made from the bark of mulberry trees and painted in traditional Samoan motifs. This artisan had just completed this custom siapo for Peace Corps Volunteer Erik Martin to commemorate the completion of his service....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Samoan Independence Day

    • Samoan Independence Day

    • Host community; Traditional dress; Ceremonies

    • Students of Laumua o Punaoa dressed in traditional wear (though made out of modern materials) to perform at the Independence Day celebration in June 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Siva Afi

    • Siva Afi

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • Samoan Fire Knife Dancing. We were lucky enough to be in country for both the 7th and 8th Annual International Siva Afi competitions. Apia, Samoa
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Siva Afi

    • Siva Afi

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • Samoan Fire Knife Dancing. We were lucky enough to be in country for both the 7th and 8th Annual International Siva Afi competitions. Apia, Samoa
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ava Ceremony

    • Ava Ceremony

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Traditional dress; Volunteers

    • Peace Corps Volunteers Aaron Cook and Cale Reeves participate in the welcome Ava Ceremony for new Peace Corps Country Director Dale Withington. 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gathering Mangos

    • Gathering Mangos

    • Host families; housing; traditional dress; Children; Volunteers

    • Volunteer Cale Reeves and his host brothers and sisters gather mangos thrown down by his host father in the tree above them. Lalomauga. 2007
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Savalivali

    • Savalivali

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Terrain

    • "Savalivali means go for a walk." This is a line from a song taught to us by our language trainers. These village children are walking back from a hydro-electric plant. They play in the run-off as if it were a water park. Lalomauga, Samoa. 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Joyful Dancers

    • Joyful Dancers

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • 2006 Botswana, Africa. This photograph is one of my favorites.I had just arrived in the Okavango Sub-district and the District Officer invited me to go to an event in Shakawe. I was sitting on the edge of a stage when I took this photograph of Sans...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coming!

    • Coming!

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • 2007 Botswana - I was in Seronga to help with a district affair. I was decorating the Kgolta when I captured this photograph of community members on their way to the event.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cartuchos

    • Cartuchos

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • Tome' esta fota de una mujer del pueblo llamado, Chica'man, en el departamento del Quiche. Ella estuvo caminado desde su casa en los alredodores del pueblo al centro para vender sus flores durante el dia del mercado. Los flores, se llaman...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ladies in Waiting

    • Ladies in Waiting

    • Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations

    • My husband and I snapped this shot at our city's annual Novruz celebration. Novruz dates back to Azerbaijan's Zoroastrian roots, and builds with weekly celebrations, culminating in a festival filled with food, art, and dance. These young ladies are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Flavors of Traditional Costume

    • Flavors of Traditional Costume

    • Dance; Traditional dress

    • The Kuru Development Trust sponsors a Sans Festival each year. I attended the Kuru Sans event in 2007. In this particular photo, I was captured by the multi-generation of women performing and the integration of traditional costume and underwear.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandmothers' Participation in Town Celebration

    • Grandmothers' Participation in Town Celebration

    • Elders; Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • In April 2007 I traveled to Poltava Oblast in the center of Ukraine to visit a fellow Volunteer. I took this picture in Reshetylivka, her town, on the anniversary of the town's founding. These women are babusiyas (grandmothers) and they're...
    • Volunteer Photos

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