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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Tramping

    • Tramping

    • Transportation

    • Tramping was to travel on weekends either to camp in fields or visit friends in othe villages. We tramped visiting other PCV's. Elaine is at train station at Jindrichuv Hradec the town of one of our Volunteer friend. This tramping weekend...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tiny Market of Beignets and Tchouk Beer

    • Tiny Market of Beignets and Tchouk Beer

    • Markets; Food and meals

    • This is a tiny market on Wednesday afternoon in Affem Kabye. The women make beignets and beer to sell to the men after they come home from the fields. Women also drink the locally brewed millet beer. This market is so small that women do not even...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing In

    • Swearing In

    • Swearing-in ceremonies

    • Swearing in ceremony August 31, 1995 at the Ambassador's Residence. Ambassador Jennone Walker is in first row third from left.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Dorms

    • Student Dorms

    • Housing

    • This is one of the student dorms at Neijiang Teachers' College in 1998. The students lived eight to a room (with four bunk beds) and hung their laundry out to dry on their balconies.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Prize Ceremony at G.H.S. Ntumbaw

    • Prize Ceremony at G.H.S. Ntumbaw

    • Ceremonies; Schools; Teachers and students

    • Each year since my Peace Corps service we assist through Educare-Africa many students with basic school supplies which we give to the best three in every class in 2-3 schools. This photograph was taken in 2008 during the prize giving ceremony at...
    • Volunteer Photos

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