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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Uveges Tanc

    • Uveges Tanc

    • Traditional dress; Youth; Dance

    • This photo was taken in Bekescsaba, Hungary in May 1993 at a folkdance performance in the city center. Many of my students are performing in this group. You will notice the wine bottles on the heads and in the hands of the dancers. The dance...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tumisi and Gary

    • 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

    • 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
    • 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
    • The Trabant

    • The Trabant

    • Transportation

    • Let me start by saying we were NOT allowed to drive as volunteers. I'm sitting in a parked Trabant (car produced in former East Germany) in front of my building in Bekescsaba, Hungary in June 1993. Most Hungarians used bicycles or public...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bekescsaba Knights Softball Team

    • The Bekescsaba Knights Softball Team

    • Sports; Youth development

    • Peace Corps volunteers decided to start a softball league where classes of students could play against each other. This photo is of my 8th grade students at a tournament in Szarvas, Hungary. Our softball equipment was collected by people from my ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tarxien

    • Tarxien

    • Statues and monuments

    • PCV Carol standing by one of the many statues in Malta presumed to be of the earth goddess. This was in the small town of Tarxien, a main prehistoric site.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Szabo Pal Altalanos Iskola - My Classroom

    • Szabo Pal Altalanos Iskola - My Classroom

    • Schools

    • This is a photo of my classroom in Bekescsaba, Hungary. I taught groups of 15 6th through 8th grade students in this classroom around the single table you can partly see in the photo. I'm standing at the back windows of the classroom. When I...
    • Volunteer Photos

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