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    • Zaire Fisheries

    • Zaire Fisheries

    • Work; Agriculture; Fishing

    • Inspecting a pond with other aquaculture (fisheries) volunteers. We grew Tilapia. This was part of our orientation to farming in Zaire, prior to language training at Bukavu, Lake Kivu. 1980
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yamaha Motorcycle 125

    • Yamaha Motorcycle 125

    • Transportation

    • Kinshasa, Zaire/Congo at Peace Corps headquarters. We were provided with new Yamaha 125 motorcycles, as fisheries Volunteers and we did cover a large area which required a bike. Later, I broke my ankle.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Supply

    • Water Supply

    • Water and sanitation; Site development

    • Running pipe, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. The women of the village were the movers and shakers and they were the driving force to get this water supply installed so they would not have to carry water up a very steep clay hill side.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visiting Samoa

    • Visiting Samoa

    • Host families

    • Deputy Director and RPCV Carrie Hessler-Radelet, her father and her host family during her family's visit from Michigan (Western Samoa, 1983)
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visit to Voortrekker Monument

    • Visit to Voortrekker Monument

    • Statues and monuments; Medical evacuation

    • After breaking my ankle in a motorcycle accident, I was flown for surgery to South Africa. I visited the Voortrekker Monument while I was there. Pretoria, South Africa
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Art

    • While serving in Liberia, West Africa in 1981-82, I was stationed in Cape Palmas teaching Architecture. Because I am an artist I made many watercolor studies of the people and their environments throughout the area. Now I have revived several of...
    • 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
    • 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
    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • Art

    • There are 4 murals that depict the history of Anguilla from the time of Columbus, to the present day, circa 1981. This was painted by a local artist as a gift to the people of Anguilla, and is from a mural in the main government building.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Coronation Feast of King George Tupou V

    • The Coronation Feast of King George Tupou V

    • Ceremonies; Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This photo was taken August 1, 2008 on the grounds of the Tongan Royal Palace in Nuku'Alofa at the Coronation feast. The photo is of Princess Pilolevu's daughter (little girl) about to enter the feast tent to perform the ta'olunga for her uncle,...
    • 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
    • Soloman Islands House

    • Soloman Islands House

    • Housing; Animals; Youth

    • Village girl with cat, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. My house was used for many things, including meetings; the kids would come with their parents and avail themselves of any reading material I happened to have including Newsweek and National...
    • Volunteer Photos

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