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    • Raising Chickens

    • Raising Chickens

    • agriculture; animals

    • I am checking on our young chickens as part of our in-country training in the summer of 1966. We built the coops and raised the chickens from chicks.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Manuela Condori shearing her sheep

    • Manuela Condori shearing her sheep

    • animals; host community friends

    • The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tuareg Camel Riders

    • Tuareg Camel Riders

    • Celebrations; Animals

    • The Tuareg camel riders completed the 1967 Independence Day Parade in Niger. The Tuareg are the desert people of Northern Niger. The camels are sensitive to humidity and are limited to desert conditions. This is about 15.3 degrees latitude, the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Viva Bolivia!

    • Viva Bolivia!

    • Celebrations; children

    • Flag-waving, music, marching and declamations are mandatory for any official event in Bolivia. Often, as in the case of this event, the inauguration of the new teachers' living quarters in the town of Comanche, all the school kids participate....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Awards

    • Awards

    • Ceremonies; Agriculture

    • This photo was taken in Jabalpur, MP, India in 1969. Indian farmers received numerous awards for thier outstanding agriculture and poultry farms. I was thier friend, poultry outreach worker and camera owner. They were very pleased with the ceremony...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Great Smile

    • Great Smile

    • children

    • This photo was taken in the market of a young friendly boy. He was trying to figure out who these tall strange looking foreigners were.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friends and Neighbors

    • Friends and Neighbors

    • children

    • Three girls that were neighbors but they were friends with each other. One was a Hindu, one was Muslim and one a Christian. The little boy was a younger brother of the first girl. Despite their religious differences they always hung out together.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The President's Welcome

    • The President's Welcome

    • Dignitaries

    • His Excellency Hamani Diori, the first president of Niger, is personnally welcoming each 1967 Peace Corps Volunteer to Niger. The Volunteer welcome included a dinner with the President, the First Lady, other government officials, several embassy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vegetable Garden

    • Vegetable Garden

    • food and meals; agriculture

    • Unicef furnished us vegetable seeds so we could help the women in the villages learn to plant and maintain vegetable gardens to have a variety of vegetables all year long. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Winter 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friend and Tutor

    • Friend and Tutor

    • host community friends

    • This photo was taken in my friend Subaiya's garden. She did not have a camera and wanted to have us in a photo together. She tutored me in Hindi for the first year I lived in Jabalpur. She was a teacher at one of the local schools.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At home with Captain Butalia

    • At home with Captain Butalia

    • host community friends

    • This is my husband Terry, also a PCV, and Captain Butalia. We are visiting in their home in India. The Butalias welcomed us into their home like we were family. We learn much of their culture and they were so curious about America and President...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Alejandro and Porfirio with Radishes

    • Alejandro and Porfirio with Radishes

    • Host community friends

    • Bolivia, fall (our spring), 1968. Alejandro (l) and Porfirio (r) checking out some radishes from a little demonstration garden plot. The altitude, cold and dryness of the Altiplano are not conducive to many food crops. However, some cold-climate...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cattle Plowing

    • Cattle Plowing

    • host community friends; agriculture; animals

    • This is a photo of one of the farmers my husband worked with plowing his field with his cattle. One of the ways my husband, Terry, helped the farmers was to educate them on using more than one fertilizer on their land. Punjab, India. Fall 1966
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Usha and myself

    • Usha and myself

    • host community friends; schools

    • This photo is of Usha, a young girl in the town who assisted me in the Nursery School, and myself. We spent many hours together as friends and teaching young children. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Fall 1966.
    • Volunteer Photos

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