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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Seaplane Was Our Transportation

    • Seaplane Was Our Transportation

    • Transportation

    • Whenever the seaplane came to the island...usually twice a week, the children would run through the village announcing they had just heard it flying overhead. They would scream "Si bi eaa" for "Sea Bee Air" the name of the plane. The plane was...
    • 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
    • Roof Cap

    • Roof Cap

    • Community development

    • Building the clinic, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. Six villages got together to build a Village Health Aid Post, as part of the requirment to have a local person trained as a Village Health Aid.
    • Volunteer Photos

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