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    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Maternal and child health

    • This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ye Massa with Segburreh

    • Ye Massa with Segburreh

    • Host community friends

    • Taken outside my door, Ye Massa stopped to give me this wonderful smile and pose with the segburreh that she was playing as she headed past with a group of women from the local Bondo. Ye Massa and her husband Pa Sam were my friends. They lived...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • With Host Family in Peru

    • With Host Family in Peru

    • Host families

    • This photo, taken in 1969, is of Volunteer Jim Hencin along with the host family in whose house he lived in Limatambo, Peru. The family owned a restaurant/pension that served many travelers who stopped on their way to and from Cuzco, the regional...
    • 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
    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Transportation

    • This photo, taken in 1969, shows men who were traveling from Limatambo, Peru, to an agricultural demonstration farm. The truck, typical of ones that transported both people and goods, had a flat tire, which was being fixed.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Two Old Ladies

    • Two Old Ladies

    • Elders; Children

    • I served as town photographer while teaching secondary school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. This sitting was of an older woman and her grand daughter who were both called "Old Lady." Out of respect for her age, the woman was Old...
    • 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
    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Children

    • Three young boys stand in the window of a small library in Catacamas, Honduras. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. April, 1969.
    • 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
    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Terrain; Urban sites

    • View of Tegucigalpa, Honduras at dusk from the hillside barrio where a Peace Corps Volunteer photographer during his years in Honduras. February, 1970.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sylvia and baby Leslie

    • Sylvia and baby Leslie

    • Children

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Sylvia Zellers bathing her new born baby, Leslie. Leslie was born in the University Hospital, Cali Colombia, on 4-25-67 to Peace Corps Community Action Volunteers Jim and Sylvia Zellers.
    • Volunteer Photos

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