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    • Writing in my Journal

    • Writing in my Journal

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken in 1990. Sitting at my dining table, I wrote in my journal daily during my Peace Corps service in Antigua, West Indies. On the wall above me is a map of the Eastern Caribbean where I called home at this time in my life. On...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Teachers and students; World Map Project

    • My Associate Peace Corps Director (APCD) suggested me to do this project with my students. It was a huge success and the students and faculty loved the project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Woodcutter in the Woods

    • Woodcutter in the Woods

    • Elders

    • While staying with two Slovak young men at a historic mill in the woods of the High Tatry of Northern Slovakia, I was invited to join them in walking to a cabin, the home of an old woodcutter. One of the young men had promised to take photos of his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wild Horses

    • 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
    • What Topography!

    • What Topography!

    • environment

    • This photo was taken in September 1990 outside Bandipur, Nepal. This photo was taken at about 4500-5000 ft of elevation. In Nepal, you don't ask people where they live. You ask "how high" their village is. Elevation is the main thing that dictates...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Diawarala!

    • Welcome to Diawarala!
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    • This photo is of me showing off the sign I made welcoming in French and Bambara and English the Peace Corps Director and an employee from Peace Corps Washington to the hamlet of 600 people I lived in. I overlapped by six months with another...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding

    • Wedding

    • Weddings

    • To the best of my knowledge, I was the first Volunteer in the Baltic Countries to marry a foreign national. This is a photo of my wife, Ausra (nee Zatorskyte) Hawkridge, my step-son, Raulis Petronis and me (Arthur D. Hawkridge). Ausra and I wore...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Got Vaccinated!!!

    • We Got Vaccinated!!!

    • Medicine; Children

    • Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead the health workers from the Hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Project

    • Water Project

    • Water and sanitation; Host community friends

    • Robert "RJ" Harper in Livingston, Guatemala moments after installing a water project with the local Garifuna community.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer with Village Children, Ataa, Malaita

    • Volunteer with Village Children, Ataa, Malaita

    • children; host community friends; schools

    • This picture is of me and village children (mostly primary school students) in Ataa, Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. Ataa is in north / east Malaita and is accessible only by canoe. I took this picture during a holiday during a Nov 1993 visit ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer Trainers

    • Volunteer Trainers

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • These are the faces of experience- my Volunteer trainers who we thought of as all-knowing. Some so great that their photos are on the 8th floor wall at PC HQ.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Visiting Students at Mbuluv

    • Work; Teachers and students

    • During the last year of my Peace Corps service I decided to visit many of my students in their villages. Except for one, we (delegation of students and I) went everywhere on foot and had a lot fun along the way too. Our visit was greatly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Dinner

    • Village Dinner

    • Animals; Celebrations

    • In this photo, I am with the mother of the family who took good care of my when I was working deep inside Tazekka National Park. Here we are getting ready to prepare this goat for the Aid L'Kabir celebrations held about a month after Ramadan. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • View of the Lake and Farmers' Homes

    • View of the Lake and Farmers' Homes

    • Housing

    • Pig farmers lived in this brick house across from my apartment building. I heard the pigs squealing as they were killed. In the background is a modern white building in the city of Neijiang, across the river from our village near Neijiang Teachers'...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • View from Mokhele

    • 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

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