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    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • The people of Issan (Northeast Thailand) are very resourceful, especially when it comes to eating. This is a boiling ox placenta. It so happens that the calf was named "Farang" (which means foreigner) in my honor. I was the first one to be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • host community friends

    • My dad came to visit me for two weeks in August 2011. While spending an evening at the bar mingling with the local men, one of them asked him if he'd like to go fishing with him in the morning, even though they didn't speak the same language. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching on

    • Watching on

    • Host community; Education

    • A bunch of kids from school were watching the Moroccan men (all volunteers) work on the elementary's school's new bathroom (June 2011) in Elkassaba El Khir, Tata, Morocco.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation

    • This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Project

    • Water Project

    • Water and sanitation; Host community friends

    • Robert "RJ" Harper in Livingston, Guatemala moments after installing a water project with the local Garifuna community.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water: A Gift

    • Water: A Gift

    • water and sanitation; host community friends

    • Water in Cambodia is not a sparse commodity, at least during the rainy season. My host family used the pool of water in their back yard to clean clothes and dishes, as well as jump into when they were hot after playing volleyball. Rain in Cambodia...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Agriculture

    • A welcome dinner hosted by the executive members of Binaba Women's Farmers Association (BWFA) at my house in January 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Children; Host community; Ceremonies

    • Welcoming Ceremony at the Wat: None of us understand much of anything that is going on around us, but we understand when a little girl is diligently collecting every one of the best-smelling flowers in the room for her own. Much to our amusement,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcoming Guests

    • Welcoming Guests

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • I took the time to welcome all the guests who made it to the opening ceremony of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta in my village of Adeta, Togo, including the smallest ones. The ceremony dedicated the new center to the village of Adeta and was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • West African Skateboarding

    • West African Skateboarding

    • Markets; Host community; Volunteers

    • In February 2010, a fellow volunteer Coleman, got a package from the United States with his old skateboard. We were both volunteers in rural Burkina Faso so we took advantage of the few days we had off in Burkina's capital, Ouagadougou, where there...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What is a Hammock?

    • What is a Hammock?

    • host community friends; children

    • A Fijian family lives below me. They have two young sons, and there is another boy the age of their sons that lives next door. When I am outside doing laundry or reading in my hammock they'll come bug me, its kind of silly because they speak little...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • When the Cows Come Home

    • When the Cows Come Home

    • animals; host community friends

    • This is my favorite part of the day in Moldova: when the cows come home. It always happens right around sunset when the cows start walking up the hill and you hear mooooooooooooooooo! for about 30 minutes. They all know where their respective homes...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • White Washing

    • White Washing

    • Host community friends

    • This is a picture of me and my wonderful neighbor, Mila. She was helping me white wash my kitchen during the summer. It was a pretty hilarious experience as I had never used white wash and had no idea how messy and unpredictable it was. Shortly...
    • 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
    • With a Favorite Friend at Her Loom

    • With a Favorite Friend at Her Loom

    • Elders; Host community friends

    • This is one of the sweetest people around. She is "Yai," or "grandmother." At age 86 she continues to be involved in the community and to make cotton and herbal medicines in her home. I pass her house on the way home from school, and after tough...
    • Volunteer Photos

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