This picture was taken in my village in the Region of Mbeya, Tanzania. It was taken during a training session on Communicable Diseases and Water Sanitation in one of the sub-villages. During the training one of the small children decided to take...
This is Tamai, one of the older ladies in my village. Saramaccan women work very hard harvesting, cutting, and beating rice, the primary food in a Saramaccan diet. Even women Tamai's age can put an able-bodied Peace Corps volunteer in his...
This photo was taken by Volunteer Carla Arnold during Chakri (a festival to honor the elders) in Thailand. As a 67-year old Volunteer, she was invited to be one ofthose honored. At every such festival or event there is food, and this picture...
It's Ramadan and Sports Week here in Thailand, and this girl is ready to run in her track meet. The temperatures are in the sweltering upper nineties, and even though her Grandmother is fasting from food and drink, including water, from sunrise to...
After visiting my host family for Christmas 2004, my now-husband and I were thinking about what to do for New Year's Eve. He remembered his grandfather was from a village nearby, deep in the Balkan mountains, and we decided to catch the bus there...
This photo was taken around Spring of 2004. A local counterpart and I were traveling from Ferghana to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Going through the mountains and heading west towards the capital we decided to stop in a mountain village for a rest. As...
I took this photo during the fall of 1980 in my village, Kyeong Ae Won, South Korea. These three gentlemen were patients and residents of the village. Passing time sitting on the front stoop of a home was a common site.
This Volunteer works in Tangassane as a water resource project manager. He is shown seated with village chief, Mohammane Adaa, in his mud-walled home. They drink the traditional tea as they discuss the plans for construction of three new wells.
This Volunteer visit with an elderly resident of the Issa Home. With the help of another Volunteer, she runs the home and cares for the handicapped and elderly residents. In addition to her work at the home, she’s assisting the Ministry of...