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    • Village Child

    • Village Child

    • Children

    • This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visiting Tuareg Camp after a Rain in Niger

    • Visiting Tuareg Camp after a Rain in Niger

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Children

    • While backpacking around the village of Illela, where I lived, I met a Tuareg extended family living in the wadi. We became good friends, and I frequently spent my Sunday's with them, playing with the children, telling stories, and drinking camel's...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer in Malta

    • Volunteer in Malta
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    • This shows a Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Malta 1970-1972, working as a librarian at the National Library for the first year and at the University of Malta Library for the second. He previously served in Turkey at the Middle East Technical...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wash Day

    • Wash Day

    • Life skills

    • The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site in Jawand, Afghanistan (1972). Villagers maintained their daily chores during the food distributions.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Three

    • We Three

    • Housing; Traditional dress; Children

    • In our house on the compound of Akrokerr Teacher Training College. Traditional Kente cloth hangs on the wall, Adinkra cloth covers the table.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • White Sunday in Western Samoa

    • White Sunday in Western Samoa

    • Children; Religion; Celebrations

    • This photograph was taken on the island of Manono in Western Samoa in 1975, during my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1974-1977) in that country. My host family lived on Manono and I would try to visit them whenever I was able to get away, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Winter of 1971

    • Winter of 1971

    • Weather; Environment

    • This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working on our Balance

    • Working on our Balance

    • Camps and clubs; Children; Health

    • Isabel works on the parallel bars to improve her balance during occupational therapy. Her peers cheer her on. About 30-40 children with multiple disabilities lived at the children's section of the Julio Endara M. Hospital near Quito, Ecuador. Some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wrestling on the Darzak

    • Wrestling on the Darzak
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    • My assignment in 1972 was creating a photo essay on the Peace Corps/USAID Project called Operation Help. A book was published for the Afghan government to document the project that fed 250,000 people before the winter of 1972.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yazd

    • Yazd

    • Architecture

    • This is a picture of the rooftops of Yazd, where I lived, in central Iran - looking north, taken from a mosque in the Bazaar, Circa 1975.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemen 2

    • Yemen 2

    • Volunteers

    • This is a photo of the entire team of Yemen 2 that arrived in September, 1974 including all Volunteers, Peace Corps Staff and Yemeni Staff. Jack (center top) sent me the photo the other dat. It may be the only photo of our complete team. Our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemeni Shepherd Girls

    • Yemeni Shepherd Girls

    • Traditional dress; Host community friends

    • Taken in the highlands of Yemen, somewhere between Amran and Thula, in Fall of 1977. My husband and I had arrived in Yemen about a week before and were hiking toward the highest mountain on the Arabian peninsula, and wondering how we would be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Friends

    • Young Friends

    • Children

    • I was greeted by these two beautiful little girls during the dedication of the Thomas Hooyman Library in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia on August 29, 2009. It was a return visit to Ethiopia, where I had served in the 1970s.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Students

    • Young Students

    • Children; Education; Schools; Women in Peace Corps

    • Students attending school every morning or afternoon. School sponsored by local Association to Aid Youth of Jequie.
    • Volunteer Photos

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