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- See through to me
- Schools; Children; Education
- While serving in Jamaica (05-07) I worked at Mocho Primary School (what we would call an elementary school). I went through the school when I was first there and took many photos of the students, including several striking portraits. In this...
- Volunteer Photos
- Piercing Stare
- Schools; Children; Education
- This is a photo of an elementary school boy. In the afternoons some students would come to my house, which was across from the school. In this photo this fourth grade boy is standing in front of my door, looking directly and probingly at me. The...
- Volunteer Photos
- Triptych
- Schools; Children; Education
- This photo was taken in a little alcove in the yard of the primary school where I served. The enclosure is made by heavy foliage overgrowing a barbed-wire fence. The students had taken in some chairs, in various states of disrepair, to sit on and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Jumping for Joy...and for a Playground!
- Secondary projects
- This photo includes RPCV Teresa Havenar and Volunteer Patrick. It also includes two children, Alyona and Igor, that attended the school I was working at and who also helped build our playground. We were jumping for excitement over the delivery...
- Volunteer Photos
- It Takes a Village (And a Whole Lot of Aluminum Cans)
- Secondary projects
- Volunteer Stories
- Secondary Projects: Fitness Center
- Secondary projects; Sports
- Development Volunteer Lauren Warchol and her Ukrainian counterpart opened a Fitness Center for youth in her community, with the help of a Small Projects Assistance Grant. The Center is run by student volunteers, who monitor the Center, take care of...
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map
- Secondary Projects; World Map Project
- This photo was taken inside a classroom at a men's prison in July of 2008 in Concepcion, Paraguay. I organized a world map mural with eight prisoners who were working on achieving their high school diplomas while they finished their prison...
- Volunteer Photos
- Barbie in Islam
- Signs
- This photo was taken during pre-service training, and shows a street sign in the northern region in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It was remarkable given that it took a very traditional western image, the doll Barbie, and transitioned her into a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Are You Ready For Some Football?
- Sports; Camps and clubs
- This photo was taken in Bugaria on the day of my American Football Camp with the village. The village is mostly Roma, and is located about 20 miles outside of Burgas. I had brought face paint and ribbons so all the girls could have their team...
- Volunteer Photos
- Jay Jay on Traditional Vaka
- Sports; Fishing
- This photo was taken during the Annual National Youth Celebration Day in Niue, South Pacific. The youth from many villages made their own rafts and raced them in the ocean (our raft won!) Another part of the day was a ladies' and men's vaka canoe...
- Volunteer Photos
- Cricket Celebration
- Sports; Music; Celebrations
- This photo was taken in July 2009 at the Dominica National Stadium. The cricket match was the West Indies vs. Bangladesh. During the match, I joined in a Lapo Cabwit band with other horn blowers and drummers.
- Volunteer Photos
- Basketball in Morocco
- Sports; Small Project Assistance (SPA)
- This is a picture of the Volunteer playing basketball with local youth behind the youth center. The hoops were renovated with funding from a Peace Corps/USAID SPA grant.
- Volunteer Photos
- Creative Sports
- sports; youth
- Volunteers play American football with a soccer ball with local youth. It was the first time the kids had played American football.
- Volunteer Photos
- Swearing In - Guatemala
- Swearing-in ceremonies; Traditional dress
- Volunteers Aliyya Shelley and fellow Volunteer swear-in as Volunteers in July 2008. Aliyya Shelley and HCNs wearing traditional dress.
- Volunteer Photos
- Eastern Caribbean Group 79
- Swearing-in ceremonies; Volunteers
- Our group just after swearing in, April 2009. From left to right: speaker, Sharmon Jules (Associate Peace Corps Director), Margo Jeanchild (Eastern Caribbean Director), Mara English (Volunteer), Aria Grabowski (Volunteer), trainer, Ann Maize...
- Volunteer Photos
- Inspiring Moroccan Youth and Adults about International Women's Day
- Teachers and students;
- I took this photo on March 9th, 2011 at the Lycee in my site in Morocco. We watched the "You Can Dream" film and had an educated, motivating discussion on women and the future goals of these youths. This was taken after the event to commemorate...
- Volunteer Photos
- Mighty Kenny and Me
- Teachers and students; Ecotourism
- I took this photo in July 2009 on a school trip with the Savanne Paille Primary School from Savanne Paille, Dominica. We visited Scottshead, Dominica which has a peninsula where the Caribbean Sea is on one side and the Atlantic Ocean is on the...
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map
- Teachers and Students; World Map Project
- This is a photo of Volunteer Aliyya painting a world map with her students in Guatemala.
- Volunteer Photos
- Clowning with Kids in the Classroom
- Teachers and students; Youth; Secondary projects
- One of my favorite jobs in Morocco was mentoring youth at a juvenile facility in Fes, the country's oldest city. Some of the kids joined me for a candid moment after an attempt to teach them a few words in English in the fall of 2006.
- Volunteer Photos
- futbol
- Traditional dress; Children; housing; Games
- I love introducing my children to friends I made when serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. In this photo my son Alberto is playing soccer with Enrique Reynoso, the son of a friend I met during community base training in Santa Cruz del...
- Volunteer Photos