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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • The Tea Seller

    • The Tea Seller

    • Traditional dress; Food and meals; children

    • Tea is as important a drink in Turkey as is coffee. When visiting with Turkish friends, they always offered tea first. Later coffee, more expensive and more time consuming to make, would be offered. I was always amazed at how this young boy could...
    • 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
    • The Money Bus

    • The Money Bus

    • Transportation

    • All travel in upcountry Liberia was by taxi or “money bus”. There was no schedule. When a taxi driver got a full complement of at least 6 passengers he would leave. The Peugeot station wagon was the car of choice. The “money bus”...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Despedida 6: The Newlyweds

    • The Despedida 6: The Newlyweds

    • Weddings

    • The Despedida 6: The Newlyweds shows newlyweds Jeff and Francy Hirsch leaving the Bicol Teachers College (BTC) Little Theater. Well-wishers in white are BTC students (future teachers). The two children at right are fourth-graders in the BTC...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Despedida 2: The Assemblage

    • The Despedida 2: The Assemblage

    • Weddings

    • Of the more than 30 remaining photos, The Despedida 1 – The Despedida 6 capture the essence of the event. The Despedida 2: The Assemblage, shows some of those gathered for The Despedida. Most did not realize they would be at a wedding ...
    • Volunteer Photos

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