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- Hindu child in Bangladesh
- youth; religion
- This little girl is a devout Hindu at a temple in Gopalganj Bangladesh. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I walked by this temple every day and could not help to notice her beauty and dedication to taking care of her family, which is so normal for all...
- Volunteer Photos
- Bel Mache (Beautiful Hike)
- youth; environment
- Hiking with a group of foster children in beautiful Dominica.
- Volunteer Photos
- Taking it all in
- youth; environment
- This was on a field trip to the Carib Territory which is on the west coast of Dominica. The children in the picture are all currently living in a youth shelter where I work as counselor/care-giver.
- Volunteer Photos
- Environmental Trash Pick-up
- youth; environment
- Despite of the rain, the students’ eager to collected as much trash as they could in order to help promote a cleaner environment and raise environmental awareness throughout the community of Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco. This photo shows the students...
- Volunteer Photos
- Students Teaching Each Others
- youth; environment
- After an environmental trash pick-up activity and lesson in Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, we’ve divided the students in groups and asked them to present what they have learned from the activity and how they envision a healthy environment to be.
- Volunteer Photos
- Trask Pick-up
- youth; environment
- Zakaria placed the collected trashes into the garbage can from an environmental trash pick-up activity in Ait Ben Haddou. This activity enhances the youth awareness and helps promote a cleaner and healthier environment.
- Volunteer Photos
- Art and Craft Activity
- youth; environment
- After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
- Volunteer Photos
- Art and Craft Activity
- youth; environment
- After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
- Volunteer Photos
- Students at Orphanage Camp Learning English
- youth; education
- Eager to learn, level three students at an orphanage camp in Rabat are writing their daily lesson. They are excited to learn what I was going to teach them next. These young minds are full of questions about proper ways of writing and speaking...
- Volunteer Photos
- Full of Excitement
- youth; education
- The students at Imlil Primary School are full of excitement and anticipation of all the activities and gifts provided by the Casablanca’s Rotary Club.
- Volunteer Photos
- Giant Chess
- Youth development; Schools; Secondary Projects
- This picture was taken just after we finished painting a giant chess board on the gravel lot outside my school attachment. We decided to make the pieces out of recycled bottles. In the picture is me and the youth and sports teacher.
- Volunteer Photos
- Game Time
- youth development; games
- I helped lead an English leadership summer camp at a school in L'viv. Here I was explaining a game, and the kids were excited to get started. I believe the game happening in this picture was "Giants, Wizards, & Elves."
- Volunteer Photos
- Comilla Outreach
- youth development; community development; health
- Pinky, my student at the Department of Youth Development, is teaching a hygiene class in a poor part of Comilla. One part of our class involved a community outreach project.
- Volunteer Photos
- Team Building
- Youth development; Camps and clubs
- This is a photo of a team-building exercise I did with one of the youth groups I worked with.
- Volunteer Photos
- Latin Locks of Love
- youth;
- I took this photo July 19, 2011 in Ecuador. After school, this 12 year old girl and her mother visited their local hair salon and chopped off more than 12" each. They had been planning to donate their hair for months - the little girl had seen an...
- Volunteer Photos
- morning coffee with the nana staras
- Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Traditional dress
- This photo was taken in July outside of my school the south west mountains of Bulgaria. In my community, which is 100% Bulgarian Muslim the women have a traditional dress that includes a head scarf and colorful pants called shalvary. Through out...
- Volunteer Photos
- Woven History Empowering Women in Guatemala
- Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Business development
- Volunteer Stories
- Mujeres Poderosas
- Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development
- This photo that I took in January, 2011, shows young teenage girls from the Andes mountains in Shilla, Peru on their first day of the club Mujeres Poderosas (Powerful Women) in which they participated in a 6 week workshop where we talked about...
- Volunteer Photos
- Wedding in Azerbaijan
- Weddings
- This photo was taken at my wedding on November 21, 2009 in Naxchivan, Azerbaijan. I married my community counterpart after completing my first two years of service, and starting my third year. We participated in a traditional wedding ceremony for...
- Volunteer Photos
- Quiche Wedding 2005
- Weddings
- This photograph was taken at the wedding of Peace Corps Volunteer, Terese Maineri (Rural Youth at Risk 2003-2005) to Mateo Velasquez Lopez. The couple will be celebrating their 7th year anniversary on July 30, 2012.
- Volunteer Photos