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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity

    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity

    • dance; traditional dress

    • Music and dance are part of Liberian life. In 1972 some of the people in Kolila, Liberia where I was the first Peace Corps volunteer from 1971-1973 surprised me with a visit from the Play Devil. The sounds of one musician soon called many of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • TB Vaccination Korea 1973

    • TB Vaccination Korea 1973

    • Health; Medicine

    • Ralph Echols, K24, gives a TB vaccination to a middle school studentat a Seul middle school, winter of 1972. This was part of our training practicum. Photo by Richard Trinrud.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taruyea and Her Daughter, Fatima

    • Taruyea and Her Daughter, Fatima

    • Host community friends

    • Assigned to each Peace Corps Volunteer, by the school principal, was a cook and housekeeper. This woman and her child were also my companions and became my family after our time together. Dedicated work, wonderful food and always a good...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taking Flight

    • Taking Flight

    • Transportation; Environment

    • This photo was taken in the town of Teppi, in Ilubabor Province of Ethiopia in 1974. At my school there had been a big grassy knoll that separated the football field from the local airstrip. During an intensive clean up day at the school we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Summer Days

    • Summer Days

    • Youth; Health

    • Partnering with a school in Agadir, located on the ocean, the boys were able to spend a month during the summer on the beach. Being in the ocean gave them a freedom of movement they had not experienced since contracting polio.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soi Petchburi Local Shoemaker

    • Soi Petchburi Local Shoemaker

    • Markets

    • This is a photo of the shoemaker who repaired shoes on the corner of the street I lived on. Next to him is the woman who sold fruits and vegetables. The street is Soi Petcburi in Bangkok, Thailand.
    • Volunteer Photos

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