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- With My Family in Croix des Bouquets
- Host families
- This picture was taken with my host family shortly before training ended in September of 1984. They took such good care of me. At first they attempted to serve me meals that they thought were Americanized. When they realized how much I liked...
- Volunteer Photos
- With Friends in Croix des Bouquets
- Children; Host community
- Ann and I walked to school each morning during training in the company of this beautiful group of children.
- Volunteer Photos
- Where the Senorita Comes From
- World map project; Youth; Education
- The children spent a lot of time in my house, so I kept crayons and paper around. When they asked me about where I came from, I told them I had lived near Mount St. Helens, which had erupted a few years earlier. This is one of my neighbors and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Water Delivery
- Children; water and sanitation; Transportation
- Water came from shallow wells in the creekbed. My neighbors delivered two jugs a week - about 10 gallons. This is my weekly delivery of water.
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteers Preparing Dinner
- Food and meals; Cooking
- Volunteers preparing fish dinner. Chogoria, Kenya, 1986.
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteer Hanging Out with Local Counterpart
- Counterparts; Host community friends
- Relaxing at a Kenyan friend's home. Meru, Kenya, 1987.
- Volunteer Photos
- Traditional Housing in Cameroon
- Housing
- Northern Cameroon. Example of traditional housing in the north of Cameroon where villages are nested together with a barrier surrounding the simple huts to keep the animals from entering their compounds. Casimir is sitting on top of a small...
- Volunteer Photos
- The First Graduating Class of Botswana Junior Secondary Art Teachers
- Teachers and students; Schools
- 1987, Botswana, Molepolole College of Education in the village of Molepolole. This was my first graduating class: Tiny, Soks, Shelia, Dennis, Kelone, Old Man, Debra, Dolly, Rejoice, and teacher - -Manatsa. This was written about me in our College...
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey
- Cooking; Food and meals; Celebrations
- For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti in 1984, all of the volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice...
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Hinche: Rice and Pigeon Peas
- Celebrations; Food and meals; Cooking
- For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery Volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Hinche: Cleaning Rice
- Food and meals; Cooking; Celebrations
- For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
- Volunteer Photos
- Technical Studies Teacher
- Teachers and students
- 1986, Shoshong Secondary School, Botswana, Africa. Self-portrait. After a long day of teaching woodworking and technical drawing. Still smiling.
- Volunteer Photos
- Swearing In with Loret Miller Ruppe
- Swearing-in ceremonies; Volunteers
- This photo was taken during the swearing-in ceremony of the third and largest group of Volunteers to begin service in Haiti in 1984. Loret Miller Ruppe, the then-Director of the Peace Corps, came to Haiti to officiate. This photo shows eight of the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sunday Market in Mora
- Markets
- This photo is taken at the colorful, wonderful Sunday Market in Mora, Cameroon. This vendor was there every week with his beautiful assortment of calabashes and other carved items. I bought many souvenirs from him!
- Volunteer Photos
- Stylin' in the Solomons
- Traditional dress
- This photo of me was taken at some point during my three years serving in the Solomon Islands. It is made from the teeth of dolphins, and the villagers got a kick out of this, as normally this type of adornment is worn by a woman.
- Volunteer Photos
- Sierra Leone 1987, Smoke Drying Fish
- Food and meals; Cooking
- Women smoke dry fish as a way to preserve the fish for sale up country. This woman is lighting a fire under a platform containing over a hundred fish. She will stay under the platform all night to ensure that the fire doesn't go out.
- Volunteer Photos
- Sierra Leone 1987 Leon and Regina
- Weddings
- This photo was taken in the village of Katta on the coast of Sierra Leone where a crowd had gathered to see the washed up body of a large manatee. In the picture are Leon Poeske and Regina White who met as Volunteers and have been married now for...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sierra Leone 1986, Man Weaving Cloth
- Artisans
- This picture was taken in Kabala, Sierra Leone and depicts a man weaving cloth in the traditional fashion on a handmade loom.
- Volunteer Photos
- Shuar Miga: Building a Community Water System
- Water and sanitation
- I took this picture with a tripod and timer, so that's why I'm in it too. The community work party from San Luis, a Shaur community located near Tiasha, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador, is constructing part of a 7 km potable water pipeline. Tiasha was a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Shopping at the Sunday Market
- Markets
- The Sunday market in Mora, Cameroon was one of the most colorful, exciting events in the area. And it happened each week! The people who gathered to buy and sell their wares, or to get together with friends, represented many different tribes and...
- Volunteer Photos