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    • Berbice Sewing Bee

    • Berbice Sewing Bee

    • Crafts; Income generation; Literacy

    • One of my Peace Corps projects included a Capacity Building and Literacy Program. Classes included crafts, sewing, literacy, and computers. This photo shows three students attending their first of many sewing classes. Photo taken in March, 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Volunteer in a Lagoon

    • A Volunteer in a Lagoon

    • Water and sanitation; Wildlife

    • Pablo, an Argentinian biologist, took this photo of me as we were wading across La Laguna de Pozuelos in northern Jujuy in 1993. We were on a flamingo collecting trip to study the diets of three different species of flamingos.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • High School Basketball Team

    • High School Basketball Team

    • Sports

    • After soccer ("football"), school children loved playing basketball. During my second year as a high school English teacher In Kangavar, Iran, I organized the school's first basketball team. Pictured here are the team members and three fellow...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Szabo Pal Altalanos Iskola - My Classroom

    • Szabo Pal Altalanos Iskola - My Classroom

    • Schools

    • This is a photo of my classroom in Bekescsaba, Hungary. I taught groups of 15 6th through 8th grade students in this classroom around the single table you can partly see in the photo. I'm standing at the back windows of the classroom. When I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School

    • School

    • Schools

    • This was my classroom / shop where I taught welding to village kids. At the time the idea was to teach nomadic village kids and young adults how to weld so they could apply for work at the Russian steelmill near Isfahan. The Shah was trying to keep...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the Fatelle

    • At the Fatelle

    • Host families; Swearing-in ceremonies

    • Dan & Donna sitting with the host family mother and father (Sina & Faiva) at the party the night we were sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers for Tuvalu. The white around the necks is baby powder; it is a custom in Tuvalu to show appreciation during...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Back Roads of Canje, Guyana

    • Back Roads of Canje, Guyana

    • Transportation

    • New Amsterdam, Guyana is below sea level. The only place with any elevation is the Canje Bridge between New Amsterdam and Canje. Part of my exercise routine includes scaling the bridge a few times a week. Most people travel by foot, bicycle,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Trabant

    • The Trabant

    • Transportation

    • Let me start by saying we were NOT allowed to drive as volunteers. I'm sitting in a parked Trabant (car produced in former East Germany) in front of my building in Bekescsaba, Hungary in June 1993. Most Hungarians used bicycles or public...
    • Volunteer Photos

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