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    • Planting a Garden in the Village

    • Planting a Garden in the Village

    • Gardens

    • Taken in 1990. Here I am planting a garden in my backyard with a village girl, Lois (who is a grown woman now). With the dry desert climate of the island of Antigua, West Indies, this turned out to be a challenging project and ultimately did not...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roadside Market

    • Roadside Market
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    • Bafang, Cameroon. The equivalent of McDonalds in Africa. This is a roadside market where all kinds of barbecue meat, fish and vegetables could be purchased. Hundreds of drivers who pass this site daily stop to eat lunch or have a snack on route...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Roman Pageant

    • San Roman Pageant

    • Sports; Dignitaries

    • We held a fundraiser in the village to raise money for the completion of the community center. Events included sport competitions: soccer, basketball, bike races, swimming races, dance, chicken barbacue and a dance "Jump Up." The photo shows a San...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Santa Claus Finally Came to the Philippines

    • Santa Claus Finally Came to the Philippines

    • Celebrations; Children; Host community

    • Kids were always saying, "Santa never comes to the Philippines!" Kim and I needed to remedy the situation so we bought toothbrushes, sound makers, etc. for 100 kids. I used the cotton from the first aid kit to make a beard, Kim sewed a hat, and I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Scarecrow Made of Banana Leaves

    • Scarecrow Made of Banana Leaves

    • Host community friends; Environment; Wildlife

    • I knew when I arrive in the morning that something was up. The fish farmers were very excited and they said that there was something that they wanted to show me. In Gahombo they had a lot of problems with Hammerkops (birds) stealling the fish. I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Successful Potato Harvest

    • Successful Potato Harvest
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    • 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
    • Taking a Rde through the Sahara Desert

    • Taking a Rde through the Sahara Desert
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    • 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
    • Temotu Volunteers

    • 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
    • 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
    • Three Musketeers ZairianStyle

    • 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
    • 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
    • Translator's Children

    • 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
    • Village Friends

    • 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
    • Women Planting Yams

    • 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

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