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    • 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
    • Lata Field Experiment Station (FES)

    • Lata Field Experiment Station (FES)

    • Architecture

    • The Lata FES was newly completed when we arrived. It was funded through British and European development aid. The photos shows staff housing and new plantings of decorative hedgerow. We were surprised how fast things grew and that all you needed...
    • 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
    • Local Children in Our Shoes and Hats

    • Local Children in Our Shoes and Hats

    • Children

    • Most afternoons our house was filled with the station's children who loved to come in and dress up in our hats and shoes and dance around. We enjoyed playing with the kids and answering their many questions about where we came from and why we...
    • 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
    • Custom Dance

    • Custom Dance

    • Dance; Traditional dress

    • In this dance picture notice the traditional finery: The breast plate made of clam shell with turtle shell design, banana fiber loincloth, bark cloth attached to the arm bands, shell headbands with feathers, leg rattles made from seeds of a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Papaya and Pineapple Plot

    • Papaya and Pineapple Plot

    • Environment

    • We planted this papaya and pineapple plot early in our service. It provided fruit for the staff and extra food was brought to the hospital in Lata. At our going away feast before we completed our service, one Temotu friend said "you did not...
    • 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
    • FES Work Crew

    • FES Work Crew

    • Environment; Host community friends

    • This is Ed and Sue with our local work crew (and friends). The project we were assigned was called Improved Temotu Traditional Agriculture (ITTA), a tree crop farming system based on traditional tree crops, such as breadfruit, several varieties of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Family Affair

    • A Family Affair

    • Fishing; Host community friends

    • Fish farmer Papa Ngwanza adds compost to his pond with his two boys. The program was called Projet Pisiculture Familiale, or Family Fish Project, and had just celebrated its 10th anniversary when this picture was taken in 1988.
    • 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
    • Ed and Sue at Home

    • Ed and Sue at Home

    • Housing

    • This is a photo of us in front of our house at our site. We were agroforestry volunteers with Dodo Creek Agricultural Research Station under the Solomon Island Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. We were stationed in the remote Santa Cruz Island...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Basket Seller

    • Basket Seller

    • Markets; Crafts

    • This was taken at the Kayanza Market in Burundi. Almost every weekend I would walk from my house to the market which was on a hillside. I used to purchase baskets from the women who sold in the market. They got to know me very well and it was a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Custom Dance

    • Custom Dance

    • Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations

    • Several times during the year the villages would celebrate a traditional event with custom dancing. The men would dress in their finest gear and dance around the dance circle to the beat of rattles tied to their ankles, dance sticks drumming the...
    • 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

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