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    • Congo/Zaire River

    • Congo/Zaire River
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    • The Congo/Zaire River is in the background. I was visiting Kinshasa and Zaire for the first week when this photo was taken. The fisheries program director had birds that talked (African Greys) and great view of the river. 1980
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • agriculture

    • Inland fisheries program in Sierra Leone was implemented by working with rural farmers to build ponds and raise Tilapia nilotica as a source of protein. A pond was constructed during training and a piece of bamboo was installed to serve as the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tilapia nilotica

    • Tilapia nilotica

    • agriculture

    • Tilapia nilotica is the fish raised in the Inland Fisheries program in Sierra Leone. I took this photo while Skip DuFour, a fellow fisheries volunteer, held it for me following a pond harvest in early 1982.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Garden in Costa Rica

    • School Garden in Costa Rica

    • Agriculture; Community development; Food and meals; Schools

    • I worked with 12 schools in Costa Rice from 1980 to 1982. This was at the school called San Francisco. The teacher and students were wonderful and worked hard on their vegetable garden.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • agriculture; fishing

    • For the Inland Fisheries Program in Sierra Leone, training took place at Makali Fish Station. A site was selected by the earlier group of fisheries volunteers and a pond was built by those volunteers and trainees and local residents of the country.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grooming

    • Grooming

    • Children; Ecotourism

    • A mother & child, bathing at a hot springs resort at the base of an active volcano, Bulusan, in Baranguay San Benon, Irosin, Sorsogon, Philippines. The hot springs were developed as a tourist attraction, but too far off the the beaten path to draw...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance in Costa Rica

    • Dance in Costa Rica

    • Dance; Youth; Traditional dress

    • The school kids in Costa Rica, 1981, taught me the national dance of Costa Rica. Since I didn't have the dress, they taught me the guy's part - so I got to have a mustache. Then I taught them square dancing to John Denver's music.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mount Kahuzi-Biega Summit

    • Mount Kahuzi-Biega Summit

    • fishing

    • Portion of our fishculture training group on top of Mt. Kahuzi-Biega near Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo 12/31/1978. Kahuzi-Biega is the home of a group of mountain gorillas. Our objective that day was to get to the top and although...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Installation of Bamboo Pipe for Pond Drain

    • Installation of Bamboo Pipe for Pond Drain

    • fishing; agriculture

    • In December 1981 during in-country training in Sierra Leone for the Inland Fisheries Program, trainees (including myself) contructed a fish pond with volunteers who had served before us and local Sierra Leoneans. This photo was taken as a bamboo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • housing

    • While traveling to the southern part of Sierra Leone to experience marine fisheries harvesting, I went through the village of Sulima, pictured here. Homes and surrounding grounds were made of all natural materials and emaculately kept.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • South Africa

    • South Africa

    • Medical evacuation

    • I had 2 operations in Pretoria and was able to visit Johannesburg over a few months of recovery. This photo is from Pretoria, South Africa, 1981.
    • Volunteer Photos

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