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    • Cooking Fish

    • Cooking Fish

    • Cooking

    • This is a photo taken in Chung Mu City at the boarding house restaurant where I ate. This is the grandmother cooking fish over a fire of pressed coal (yan tan). As an american, I was provided a fried egg with my rice, vegetables, fish, and soup...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laundry

    • Laundry

    • Host families; Clothing

    • This photo was taken of the grandmother who owned the house were I lived. Laundry was done by boiling the whites with lye soap and beating them on the rock at the cistern. If the grandmother and her friends were home when I was doing my laundry,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Kimchi

    • Making Kimchi

    • Cooking; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken in the boarding house restaurant where I took my meals with the other county and city workers who were living away from home in Chung Mu City. The restaurant was run by a woman, her mother, two daughters and young son. They...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dasain

    • Dasain

    • Children; Youth; Celebrations

    • I took this photo during Nepal's most important holiday, celebrating the triumph of good over evil. The children in this photo are some of my students and their siblings. They are playing on a "ping" (swing). Taken in Shyangja District, Nepal. 1975
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Library

    • School Library

    • Schools; Libraries

    • This was the school library at Mohamed Ali Othman School in Taiz, in 1979, at the end of my service. I'd acquired the books (by various methods), typed catalog cards for each one, made the signs, assembled the shelves, and trained older kids to...
    • 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
    • On Our Way Home

    • On Our Way Home

    • Transportation

    • Me with a stateside friend (who was also a Volunteer in Nepal 66-68) and a Sierra Leonean friend. We were on the way to his home village for a holiday visit during the Christmas break in 1977.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chris George, Sultanate of Oman

    • Chris George, Sultanate of Oman

    • Traditional dress; ceremonies

    • This photograph of Chris (on the left against the back wall) meeting with Omanis was taken by a Volunteer while on a field trip in Oman. Also in the photo is Abdulla from 1977-79. Three men were Peace Corps Volunteers with the Department of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aldea La Hacienda

    • Aldea La Hacienda
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    • This photo was taken in 1979 along a newly planted ridge north of the school house in Aldea La Hacienda. I had planted several hundred pine trees with the school children and their teacher. The teacher made it clear to the children that they...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Over the River and Through the Woods

    • Over the River and Through the Woods

    • Transportation

    • This photo is from the late 1970's in the Kasai Occidental region of DR Congo (then known as Zaire). I'm behind the wheel and fellow Volunteer is helping line up the planks. We were both Peace Corps Regional Representatives which was a 3rd year...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friends of Daniel & RPCV

    • Friends of Daniel & RPCV
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    • Collage of Liberian Family and Nancy Kumba, born in a refugee camp. the Friends of Daniel created in Denver to support friendship, peace, and faith to one former RPCV student in need. Daniel. The Friends of Daniel, a church outreach, encouraged and...
    • Volunteer Photos

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