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- Peace Corps: Chile lll 1962-64 - Ed Butler, ND 64
- Volunteer Stories
- Bruce Weber Returns to Hualpin After 45 Years
- Host families
- Volunteer Stories
- American Food?
- Cooking; Food and meals; Host families
- Volunteer Stories
- The Greatest Landlady Ever!
- Host community friends; Host families
- Volunteer Stories
- Family Compound
- Host families; Housing; Animals
- Visiting a Volunteer's home and meeting her host mother and the family sheep, near Bab Boudir.
- Staff Photos
- Whose the Boss?
- Host community friends; Host families
- Visiting a Volunteer's host family and neighbors during a photo shoot for Peace Corps. Interestingly, though I was the art director for this photo shoot, the local women all assumed I was a girlfriend of the photographer and not his manager. The...
- Staff Photos
- Two closet doors slammed shut
- Teachers and students; Religion; Resiliency
- Volunteer Stories
- Christie on the Batey
- Health; Host families
- This is Christina with haitian migrant workers and family members on the batey where she was a Health Volunteer in the Dominican Republic.
- Staff Photos
- A Special Meal in Tunisia
- Food and meals; Host families; Cross-cultural transition
- Volunteer Stories
- The Funeral
- Ceremonies; Celebrations; Host families; Funerals
- Volunteer Stories
- At Home in the World
- Host families
- Volunteer Stories
- Suzy, Come Home!
- Host families
- Volunteer Stories
- "Cleaning Grass" with My Mom and Brother
- Host families
- My mom, little brother and I are pulling weeds around the peanuts and enjoying the time together.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Common Love
- Animals; Host families
- My host sister Liza and I cuddling one of the newest members of the family. This picture was taken May 21, 2006 in Trypillia, Ukraine towards the end of my training. I had become so attached to my host family I didn't even want to think about...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Family Gained
- Host families; Traditional dress
- This is my family, they took care of me my entire two years of service. I love them as my own family. This picture was taken on my last Sunday at site, we are all dressed from church and preparing to eat the feast the family cooked in my honor.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Moment in July
- Housing; Host families
- My host mother, Luda, with one of her sons, Igor. This was taken in July of 2009, when I left my permanent site for a visit. The room they are sitting in was my "bedroom."
- Volunteer Photos
- A Moroccan Host Mother's American-Style Birthday Party
- Celebrations; host families
- My wife and I surprisde our host mom in Morocco with an American type birthday celebration, complete with cake and balloons.S he was very touched by this and admitted (a little tearfully) that this was the first time her birthday had been...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Slovak Version of a Political Rally
- Volunteers; Host families; Pre-service training (PST)
- During our training our host mother asked us to go with here into nature (hike) into the hills surrounding the village of Modra. We didn't know at the time that is was a political rally for a political party, of which there were many. We were...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Successful Harvest
- Agriculture; Host families
- I took this picture at my counterpart's house during my initial visit to site July 2009 in Romania. It was time for my counterpart and her family to pack up their freshly cut wheat harvest. This picture is of my counterpart's husband and son. They...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Ukrainian Cooking Lesson
- Host families; Cooking
- Shortly after arriving to site and moving in with our host family, three generations of Ukrainians teach Lauren how to make varenyky, stuffed dumplings, which were then filled with sour cherries. A labor of love that is so worth the effort!
- Volunteer Photos