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- Women Planting Yams
- Environment; Gardens
- In this photo the wives of FES staff and work crew helped to plant yams in ITTA plot. Yams are one of the staple foods in the Solomon Islanders' diet. Yams are roasted over an open fire, baked in the traditional stone oven, cooked in pot with...
- Volunteer Photos
- Wild Horses
- environment
- Not only one of the Rolling Stones greatest hits, but great subjects for this photo. this was taken in 1990 on a hike with a road engineer named Jeff. It was without a doubt the coldest hike I have ever been on in my life.
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteers Relaxing at a Well in Douenza, Mali
- Celebrations; Volunteers
- Featured in this photo are Tom Dunn, Doug TenEyck, Bill Moseley and Rick Heffernan. We were Volunteers in Mali from 1987-89. We gathered in Douenza, Mali in late December, 1987 to celebrate Christmas together.
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Friends
- Children
- I was visiting with the police adminstrator in the village on the front step of his residence. The village youth gathered around me and we were dissussing the day's school activities. The children were a very happy bunch and were quick to share a...
- Volunteer Photos
- View from Mokhele
- environment
- This is the view from the top of Thaba Mokhele in Mohale's Hoek District in southwestern Lesotho. You are looking to the northwest along a dyke that extends from near this mountain into South Africa.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tumisi and Gary
- counterparts
- Early on at my site I made it a point to socialize with my colleagues. I figured if I was to spend two years of my life here, I may as well enjoy it. Tumisi was one of those guys who could make even the most dull situation joyous. This photo...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tree Planting Day
- environment
- This photo was taken in 1990 during our tree planting day. Many of these tree are now twenty feet tall or higher. The kids really felt they were doing something good for their environment.
- Volunteer Photos
- Translator's Children
- Children
- These are the children of the Kirundi Translator, Emmanuel. Although we learned French, out in the countryside they spoke mostly Kirundi. I learned some Kirundi but not enough to be able to speak technically. Emmanuel was very poor and I...
- 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
- Three Musketeers ZairianStyle
- Host community friends; Fishing
- Taken in 1988 as we waited on the pond bank for the first harvest of fish for this group of farmers. They showed me how to make hats out of big forest leaves for protection from the hot equatorial sun.
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Temotu Volunteers
- Volunteers
- Five Temotu Peace Corps Volunteers at the Lata airport welcoming a visiting Volunteer (center of photo). Besides ourselves working in Agro-forestry, the other Volunteers were community education officers, provincial planners and health officers....
- Volunteer Photos
- Taking a Rde through the Sahara Desert
- This photo was taken in Agadez, Niger, in the Sahara desert, in February 1990. Some fellow Volunteers and I were sitting in the back of a pick-up truck on our way to start our one-week trek through the Sahara desert at the end of our Peace Corps...
- Volunteer Photos
- Swearing-In
- Swearing-in ceremonies
- This photo was taken in January 1988 after our Swearing-In Ceremony. Many of our trainers are in this photo as well as PCV's. These gatherings were always a good time.
- Volunteer Photos
- Surrealistic Juxtaposition
- signs
- The title phrase was coined by my good friend, Anne Button. She used it as a reference to two things, that when juxtaposed, evoke the surreal. Case in point is this photo, taken along Main Road south in Lesotho, about 15 miles north of Mohale's...
- 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
- Sue and Richard Helping to Clear the Plot
- Children; Environment
- Even the children enjoyed working with us and wanted to help with the project. Children accompany their parents to the garden and learn how to plant, harvest and prepare the local foods.
- Volunteer Photos
- Successful Potato Harvest
- The agriculture minister was very delighted to see the results of the expertise that Peace Corps Volunteer Bill brought to Yo Creek, OW District, Belize. I took this photo on an educational tour of the potato farm for the locals. The minister is...
- Volunteer Photos
- Son of the Soil
- counterparts
- Clement taught Religious Studies and Bookkeeping at our school for many years. He absolutely loved gardening and spent untold hours tilling his plot by hand until the soil was as fine as course sand. Son of the Soil was a real term of endearment...
- 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