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    • 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
    • To Be Better Informed

    • To Be Better Informed

    • HIV-AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • In this photo a student, Tungmay, practices reading the expiration date on a condom. All of the students were surprised to hear that condoms can (and do) expire. Therefore, as part of the lesson plan, it was key for students to practice locating...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tongan Spiderman

    • Tongan Spiderman

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken April 29, 2011 in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. It was a Rotary Club Children's Fair and Peace Corps Volunteers were more than happy to help. I was working the Bouncy Castle and this little guy came to jump and slide after getting a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Under 5 Clinic

    • Under 5 Clinic

    • Maternal and child health

    • While serving in Zambia, I worked very closely with my clinic. Every friday I would spend all day weighing children under 5, so that the clinic could chart health growth and stop malnutrition.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Agriculture; Pre-service training (PST)

    • This is what I viewed while on my bike riding home from another Volunteer’s house during pre-service training (PST). People would sleep in this house during short grain rice season to protect their fields from whomever or whatever would damage...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer Work

    • Volunteer Work

    • Volunteerism; Teachers and students

    • Introducing volunteer work to my students is one of the best ways to exchange culture. My students traveled 14 hours to volunteer at two Halloween parties I hosted for my new students. It was such an awesome act of volunteerism!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Balloons

    • Water Balloons

    • Anniversaries; Games; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken during our 50th Anniversary celebration for Peace Corps. It was held at the community hall (see the name on the building, 'Tranom-pokonolona' literally translated as house of the townspeople) at my site in Madagascar. The sign...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Way of Life

    • Way of Life

    • Maternal and child health

    • Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia 2009 A woman carries a baby on her back while her brother looks on.
    • 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
    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 2

    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 2

    • Maternal and child health

    • Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day, where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What is That?

    • What is That?

    • Drama; HIV-AIDS

    • In the scene from the Acting Out Awareness play, the AIDS virus has just appeared in the world. The virus, represented by the actor in red, is surrounded by the four corners of the world, represented by the four actors in white. Here, the four...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wind in the Willow

    • Wind in the Willow

    • Camps and clubs; Games

    • February 2011, Girl Power Camp - a girl's empowerment camp in the Philippines for third year high school girls. This activity was introduced by the participants as a trust exercise. The game is called wind in the willow.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Keeping Their City Clean!

    • Women Keeping Their City Clean!

    • Children; Water and sanitation

    • Another big part of the solid waste management project was the clean-ups organized at the neighborhood level. Generally in Senegal "cleaning up" is women's work. Men and children throw their garbage on the floor expecting women to clean it up. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Work Outing

    • Work Outing

    • Transportation; Counterparts

    • This is a picture was taken in June 2011 on route back to the office. This photo opportunity occurred during a work outing to visit an OTOP project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day Mural

    • World AIDS Day Mural

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map 2

    • World Map 2

    • World map project; Teachers and students

    • This picture has a volunteer and kids working on a world map in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yemen 2

    • Yemen 2

    • Volunteers

    • This is a photo of the entire team of Yemen 2 that arrived in September, 1974 including all Volunteers, Peace Corps Staff and Yemeni Staff. Jack (center top) sent me the photo the other dat. It may be the only photo of our complete team. Our...
    • Volunteer Photos

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