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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
    • Christmas

    • Christmas

    • Celebrations

    • This was the best that I could do as far as decorating for Christmas in 1972. It wasn't like there was a department store nearby or anything.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Njoro School A'level Physics and Math Students

    • Njoro School A'level Physics and Math Students

    • Teachers and students

    • Njoro is about 120 miles NE of Nairobi Kenya at an altitude of 7200 feet. Njoro School had about 500 o' and a' level students. I taught physics and math to some very bright students, who worked very hard and did very well on their exams. Over the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • In the Chicken Coop

    • In the Chicken Coop

    • Animals; Teachers and students

    • A Volunteer with former student, Bamba. School gardens/poultry raising program. Former student returning to get information on poultry raising so he could do it in his primary school. Daloa, Ivory Coast, 1975.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morrocan Boy, Ibrahim, with Puppy.

    • Morrocan Boy, Ibrahim, with Puppy.

    • Children; Animals

    • Ibrahim was a resident at the Orphanage for Boys Handicapped with Polio located adjacent to the Koutubia Mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco. I worked at the orphanage and facilitated the adoption of a puppy to help enhance the quality of life for the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Science Class Lesson

    • Science Class Lesson

    • Teachers and students; Animals; Environment

    • At Anoamaa JH School in W. Samoa (1973) I tried to bring our studies on the systems of the body to life with the dissection of a pig. Before I could finish, the class ran off with all the "parts" I had laid out on banana leaves.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Hope

    • Hope

    • Elders

    • Photo was taken in Jawand, Afghanistan during a Peace Corps/USAID Project called Operation Help. It was a War on Hunger project during the 1970's famine relief in Afghanistan.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Faith

    • Faith
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    • The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site on the Darzak Pass in Afghanistan. People waited faithfully for their winter supplies.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Eyes of the Nomad

    • Eyes of the Nomad
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    • The Photo was taken while traveling with one of Afghanistan's nomadic tribes. My assignment in October 1972 was to assess the livestock and food needs during the Afghan famine of the 1970s.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children of the Desert

    • Children of the Desert
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    • The Photo was taken while traveling with one of Afghanistan's nomadic tribe. My assignment in October 1972 was to assess the livestock and food needs during the Afghan Famine of the 1970s
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Delivery

    • Delivery
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    • The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site on the Darzak Pass in Afghanistan. People waited faithfully for their winter supplies
    • Volunteer Photos

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