Introducing volunteer work to my students is one of the best ways to exchange culture. My students traveled 14 hours to volunteer at two Halloween parties I hosted for my new students. It was such an awesome act of volunteerism!
Each year, South Africa celebrates Madiba Day. Each South African is asked to do 67 minutes of community service in honor of Nelson Mandela's 67 years of fighting for the rights of humanity.
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. A boy who stayed after school to watch the volunteers work and a volunteer are sitting together on a wooden beam.
This photo was taken in December 2010 in Mozambique. My girls youth group was reaching out to vulnerable children in our villa who were living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. We made up care packages as an encouragement; stuffing hand sews sacks...
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out. Amazingly, 11volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out (June 2011). Amazingly, 11 volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. This is a view taken from the top of the bathroom, looking down. This picture was taken by a Moroccan volunteer using my camera. The volunteers are...
Volunteerism; Small Project Assistance (SPA); Architecture; Host community friends
I took this photo on-site in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on August 12th, 2006 during a joint project with the local Habitat for Humanity. The small project teamed Peace Corps Volunteers with local friends to encourage volunteerism within their own...