Volunteers teach farmers how to grow trees with high nitrogen leaves which can be used to fertilize fish ponds. Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project, Northern Province, Zambia, Sept. 2001.
This farmer was taught how to build a fish and raise tilapia by Elizabeth as part of the Peace Corps' Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project. Here he has taken some of his harvest to the town of Isoka, Zambia to sell, tying one kilogram (kg) of...
This was taken on Lake Iteshi-teshi during in-service training for the Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project, Peace Corps, Zambia, April 2000. All of these volunteers were dedicated to improving the food security of Zambians by teaching them how to...
This photo was taken of me while distributing supplies that were donated by an elementary school in the U.S. to a rural Mayan school in Guatemala. As an agricultural extentionist from '99 - '01, I often worked in schools such as this one, helping...
I met my wife while buying vegetables from her in the market of Ipala, Chiquimula, Guatemala, and we were married about three years later. This photo is of my wife on our wedding day, and her various relatives who came to help with the cooking for...
Volunteer Anna worked with the rural communities in the region of La Paz, Bolivia. This photo epitomizes Anna's notoriously positive spirit and the joyous demeanor she held with the host community. The building of a community well was just one of...