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    • Learning to Carry Like a Nepali Woman

    • Learning to Carry Like a Nepali Woman
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    • While trekking in the Gokyo Region of Nepal, I met this local woman who, like many Nepali women, was carrying a heavy straw basket on her head. She set it down on a rocky ledge and I squatted underneath as if I were carrying the basket in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Latvian Town of Aizpute

    • Latvian Town of Aizpute

    • Architecture

    • Located on the Tebra River, the St. John's Lutheran Church seen here was built around 1860. The settlement in the area dates back to the year 1253. I took this photo in the fall of 2000 and was the first Peace Corps Volunteer assigned to Aizpute,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Map mural

    • Map mural

    • Art; Teachers and students; Youth development

    • A group of Volunteers painting a map mural. Cabrera, Dominican Republic, 2001
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Year's Eve, Ukraine, 2001

    • New Year's Eve, Ukraine, 2001

    • Celebrations

    • The picture was taken in the home of my host family on New Year's Eve, 2001. The picture is taken in front of the decorated tree with the two children of my host family, This picture accompanies the story I submitted about the events of that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yi Baby

    • Yi Baby

    • Children

    • Most people don't know that China is home to 55 different "minority" groups. My Peace Corps site was in Xichang, Sichuan and was home to one of the largest groups, the Yi people. The Yi people have their own language that is still very much alive...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baptist School Students

    • Baptist School Students

    • Children

    • I had left my camera back in the US when I left to volunteer in Romania. There I acquired an old Russian Zorky-C rangefinder camera and an old very bulky medium format German camera. This picture of students was taken at one of the schools where I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remember

    • Remember

    • Children; Celebrations; Crafts; September 11, 2001

    • This picture is of my 5th grade Technology class at my Primary School in South Africa. We were learning about structures and talking about structures found in cities. I decided to share two famous structures in America in lieu of the upcoming 10th...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remember

    • Remember

    • Children; Celebrations; Crafts; September 11, 2001

    • This photo was taken at my school in South Africa. This is my 5th grade technology class where we were learning about structures. We discussed how structures are created and different types. I taught them about skyscrapers and in lieu of the 10th...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Skip and Yi Grandma

    • Skip and Yi Grandma

    • Children; Elders

    • This photo was taken in August of 2010 during one of my return visits to my host community. I served just outside the town of Xichang, in Sichuan province, and the area has a sizeable population of Yi people (it's the capital of the Yi Liangshan...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Back to Peace Corps Site After 10 Years

    • Back to Peace Corps Site After 10 Years

    • Children; Elders

    • This was taken in August 2010 on a visit back to my host community -- 10 years later. I was a Volunteer in Xichang in Sichuan province. I was walking by and this woman was very interested in my son -- it was typically the first time for many of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing Girl

    • Dancing Girl

    • Dance

    • A student at the Maya Devi School for Girls in Bharatpur, Nepal, where a taught, performs a traditional Nepali dance during a day of student performances at the school.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the local market

    • At the local market

    • Elders

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Elders; Host community

    • In the city of Arad, on my way to the after school program run my the orphanage where I worked, I saw this older gentleman carefully balancing on the icy sidewalk.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bunica Watching

    • Bunica Watching

    • Elders; Housing

    • Very often older people in Romania like to watch who is entering or leaving the building....This "bunica" or grandma is looks out the window.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the Local Market

    • At the Local Market

    • Elders; Markets

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piața" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Food and meals; Pre-service training (PST)

    • Close to the apartment where I lived in Arad, the driver in this classic Dacia had fallen asleep. In the back were loaves of bread. During in-service training I stayed with a host family in Ploiesti (I felt I was the luckiest of Volunteers to have...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grinding coffee

    • Grinding coffee

    • Food and meals; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Volunteers

    • I took this picture of Volunteer Andrea Yajko learning how to grind coffee from her neighbor. Taken in 2001 in Villa Riva, Dominican Republic
    • Volunteer Photos

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