Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture; Traditional dress
While serving in the village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in Village. To pass the time while we worked, they would teach me...
This photo features a group of 5th graders at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). It was taken November 10, 2009 shortly after the new computers arrived and the desks and painting had been completed. Along...
While staying with two Slovak young men at a historic mill in the woods of the High Tatry of Northern Slovakia, I was invited to join them in walking to a cabin, the home of an old woodcutter. One of the young men had promised to take photos of his...
It’s Saturday morning, it’s market day in the village. Market day is a busy day. Saleswomen and men come a long (or not) way to sell their produce or products. It’s especially busy between June and September; especially busy in July. That is...
Women in Tiguibery, Guinea, fish with their children in tow. After catching the tiny fish, the women gracefully placed their catch in the calabash bowls balanced on their heads. The dry season on the Niger River also allows locals to do their...
Taken during first year when visiting student's house in Sousse, Tunisia. The family wanted me to wear a bridal dress to better understand the culture.
When I first arrived for my site visit it was arranged that I would stay with Nuria, an employee in the town hall that was to be my counterpart agency. She and I immediately bonded. She taught me a ton about Salvadoran culture and was my closest...
This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
This photo was taken during my training in Trypillia, Ukraine on March 6, 2006. The little girl is my host sister, Liza, all bundled up for her morning walk to school. It was one of the first major snowfalls I experienced while in Ukraine.
At the teacher training session for the k5 trainees in Cambodia, a class full of mostly college English students listen to suggestions by Peace Corps trainees on how they might better their English teaching in the classroom.
February 2011, Girl Power Camp - a girl's empowerment camp in the Philippines for third year high school girls. This activity was introduced by the participants as a trust exercise. The game is called wind in the willow.
I took this photo during a World AIDS Day event at the end of November, 2011 at a primary school in Swaziland. World AIDS Day is a great event held yearly in order to educate children and adults alike in the community, an important and fun way to...
I took this photo on my walk home, after having tea with the head of one of my villages. This photo was taken at the top of the Ait Bazza valley, in Fes-Boulemane Province, Morocco. The moment took my breath away, with the broken trail, the village...
This is a photo of a Guatemalan boy enjoying a copy of "Donde Los Monstruos Viven" or "Where the Wild Things Are." His rural school received over 100 books as part of a library donation from the USA.
The children spent a lot of time in my house, so I kept crayons and paper around. When they asked me about where I came from, I told them I had lived near Mount St. Helens, which had erupted a few years earlier. This is one of my neighbors and...
Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
When I saw this view I thought of France and Camille Corot's landscape paintings of France. But no, this scene was real in Thailand. I had just moved to my permanent site in March and took this picture April 2011.