The photo shows me overlooking El Valle de San Jose in Colombia South America in May 1963 soon after I arrived in Colombia as a Rural Community Development worker
This was a volunteer get together in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, in 1967. The gentleman to the right of Aaron Williams is the respected Director of Education for the district, Senor de los Santos.
In 2005, we visited the Ong'esa family, in Tabaka, Kenya. We worked with this family as PCV's, around setting up a stone carvers cooperative, and family planning.
Singing in the photo are Dick Lundgren, Dee Maning, Rich Holmes, Neil Dupree, Joyce Emery, and Roger Lavallee. One was usually asked to perform at functions. This was on our visit to established volunteers in the Cotobato area of Mindano in 1965.
Ebbie, the young woman in the plaid skirt, worked and stayed with us in Zamboanga City. For pay, we paid her school tuition, uniform and book fees. This was a fiesta on Basilan Island at her family's home on a coconut plantation.
At the end of each of our teaching cycles the
basic training school would hold a celebration which consisted of a photograph, banquet, and entertainment. We Peace Corps Volunteers are seated with some of our students standing in Kurnool, Andhra...
Our Health Nutrition team taught at a Gram Sevika Basic Training School for young people who would become rural elementary teachers. One month we taught courses in health, nutrition, vegetable gardening, and making of a smokeless chula...
Our Health Nutrition team taught at a Gram Sevika Basic Training School for young people who would become rural elementary teachers. One month we taught courses in health, nutrition, vegetable gardening, and making of a smokeless chula...
Two Rural Development Volunteers in Guinea (1964) are having lunch on the road. They had stopped in a village, bought something to eat, traveled a bit more, and then stopped to have lunch. They were new volunteers and appear to be somewhat amused...
President Sekou Toure is departing Macenta, Guinea, after having addressed the crowd. The Govenor of the Macenta Distirct generously had invited us to sit in the stands, and I took the photo from that postion.
President Sekou Toure was the...
These were three of my college students at the Zamboanga City fish market. The fellow on the far left is Mohammad. They were part of the Moslem community there. 1965
The young man who assisted us at the house asked one day if we could help fund a family photo. We were a little curious, but it became clear that he wanted a formal family photo with their first child. We thought it was a good idea, and we funded...
A hunter stopped by the house shortly after our arrival. He gave us an interesting, off-guard introduction to the wildlife of the rainforest region around Macenta, Guiinea. He had a fresh snake skin that he wanted to show us - that is sell us. ...