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    • A Good Harvest for Adding Income to the Family

    • A Good Harvest for Adding Income to the Family

    • Agriculture; Host Community; HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Squash Stand

    • Squash Stand

    • Agriculture; Markets

    • I took this photo on February 23rd, 2008 at a roadside farm stand in Paraguay. My wife was joking with the local boy in Guarani about which one is the tastiest.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sugarcane Oxcart

    • Sugarcane Oxcart

    • Agriculture; Youth; Transportation; Rural sites

    • This photo from August 24th, 2007 was taken in my site of Ruta'i, Torin, Caaguazu in Paraguay. It is of a boy loading an oxcart with sugarcane that will be used to feed other animals.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carreras de Caballo

    • Carreras de Caballo

    • Animals; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken September 2006, for the patron saint festivals of San Miguel in the community of San Miguel Ingenio, Metapan, Santa Ana, El Salvador. There is a Catholic church in the background, which is the host of the festivities. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tiky's Birthday Party

    • Tiky's Birthday Party

    • Animals; Celebrations

    • This is a photo of Tiky, my dog, with the children of Zacapa, Guatemala on his birthday in November 2002. Tiky and I had been living in Zacapa for almost nine months. After biting a child who had come into our backyard while I was away, Tiky had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Plowing

    • Plowing

    • Animals; Transportation

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in June 2010. I am helping plow the field for our Farmer's Field School. The man pushing the plow is Sai'du Haruna and the girl is his daughter Aisha Sai'du. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cora at Home

    • Cora at Home

    • Architecture; Host community friends

    • My dear friend, Cora, in front of her newly-updated home in El Paragua, La Republica Dominicana. The kitchen is the new addition on the left. Previously, her "kitchen" had consisted of a fire pit in the middle of the front room of her house. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Education's Path

    • Education's Path

    • Celebrations; Teachers and students; Schools

    • This photo was taken on May 20, 2009 at the independence day celebrations in Lagdo, Cameroon. I had been working with this small parent's school located in an Mbororo village near where I was living. The Mbororo are traditionally nomadic...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nana Farida's Sad Face

    • Nana Farida's Sad Face

    • Children

    • This is a picture of a young girl named Nana Farida. She is benig carried tied to her mother's back and she is unhappy about it. This was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in early 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laure and Faiza

    • Laure and Faiza

    • Children

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010. The baby in the swing is named Laure Garba, and her older sister, who is keeping an eye on her, is named Faiza Garba. Laure is her mother's 13th child. Women...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Zambian Boy

    • Young Zambian Boy

    • Children

    • This photo was taken in September 2010 during our celebration of induction into Peace Corps Zambia. I was trying to take photos of the dancers behind this boy, but the constant gazing of his eyes drew my lens to focus on him. My favorite part of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Brother and Sister by the River

    • Brother and Sister by the River

    • children

    • This picture was taken April 28, 2011 along the banks of the Niger river in Mali. I was out on the banks with my women's association dyeing bazaan material, and caught this brother and sister pair resting under the shade of a pirogue. A pirogue is...
    • Volunteer Photos

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