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    • Sierra Leone 1987, Smoke Drying Fish

    • 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
    • The First World Map Project Map in the Peace Corps

    • The First World Map Project Map in the Peace Corps

    • Children; Education; Work; Schools; Teachers and students;

    • This is the first World Map Project Map in what was to become a standard Peace Corps activity worldwide. It is in the school in Hondo Valle, Dominican Republic. Volunteer Barbara Jo White is working with two high school students on the map. It was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fishing

    • Fishing

    • Fishing; Children

    • This is one of the families I worked with in the aldea of Atulapa, Esquipulas, Guatemala. Happy children each with a fish! The picture was taken c. 1987.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Inland fisheries

    • Inland fisheries

    • Fishing; Work

    • This photo shows J. Carl, Inland fisheries Volunteer in Liberia, working on a water control feature, part of the main channel for the Duo Town Fisheries Complex. The other fellow (in the trench) is Stanley, a farmer and master carpenter. Carl...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Master Basket Weaver at Work

    • Master Basket Weaver at Work

    • Artisans

    • This is a photo of the most talented basket weaver of the Artisan's Cooperative of Mayo-Ouldeme in Northern Cameroon. I worked closely with this coop group to get established and run a shop selling the wares of all the artisans in the village.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Shopping at the Sunday Market

    • 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
    • Building a New Home

    • Building a New Home

    • Host community; Housing

    • This is a photo of Alphonse, the business adminstrator of the artisans' cooperative, with whom I worked very closely during my time in Mora. He save enough money to build a new house, with the help of family and friends in the village of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sunday Market in Mora

    • 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
    • Samburu Moran, Easter

    • Samburu Moran, Easter

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Religion

    • This is a photo portrait taken of a L 'Moran warrior north of Archer's Post (north of Isiolo, Kenya) when I visited a friends mother's traditional Samburu manyatta campsite over the Easter Holiday. 1986
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Curious Children

    • Curious Children

    • Children

    • I was invited to listen to a group of tribal drummers in a small village. The children were more interested in looking at me than listening to the drums. This candid shot was take while I was listening to the drums. Bafang, Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Funeral Celebrations in Cameroon

    • Funeral Celebrations in Cameroon

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Dance; Funerals

    • One of the very colorful and lively funeral celebrations common in Cameroon. Participants dance to lively drums celebrating the life of a tribal chief, rather than mouring his death. Bafang, Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Housing in Cameroon

    • 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

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