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    • The School Garden

    • The School Garden

    • Secondary projects; Children; Agriculture; Environment

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in the village of Las Palmeras outside of the city of Rivas. I worked with this group of children ages 5-10 at their school to create a tree nursery and organic garden. This project ultimately fulfilled the goal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Thanksgiving "Lunch"

    • Schools; Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Food and meals

    • I was teaching Conversational English in two high schools, one was Colegiul Baptist. This picture was at the teacher's cafeteria of Colegiul National Elena Ghiba-Birta in Arad, the then director of the school Doamna Iegariu poses for the camera in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Special education summer camp

    • Special education summer camp

    • Maternal and child health; Health; Host community; Volunteers

    • This is a photo of me doing some stretching exercises with a child with cerebral palsy during a summer camp for children with disabilities that me and my host mother held in my site. This was work that was done through the parent support group that...
    • 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
    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • This photo was taken of me while distributing supplies that were donated by an elementary school in the U.S. to a rural Mayan school in Guatemala. As an agricultural extentionist from '99 - '01, I often worked in schools such as this one, helping...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing a Meal

    • Sharing a Meal

    • Host community friends; Food and meals

    • Enjoying a delicious meal of couscous and chicken. My wife and I lived upstairs from this wonderful family during our two years in Morocco.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • September 11, 2001

    • September 11, 2001

    • Host community friends; Youth; Terrain

    • This is how I remember September 11th. I went on a school field trip with my teachers and students to the ruins of Old Leon, Nicaragua. After the field trip I was exhausted and hungry. I wanted to get home and make tuna casserole. However, my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sarajevo

    • Sarajevo

    • Architecture;

    • Volunteer Tracy Mathieu at the main city fountain in downtown Sarajevo - reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Safe sex or No Sex

    • Safe sex or No Sex

    • HIV/AIDS

    • College of Micronesia (Chuuk Campus) students during the first-ever World AIDS Day parade on the island of Weno on December 1, 2000. Discussing sensitive topics such as sex, AIDS, and condoms is frowned upon, so the fact that these young people...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roma Woman Selling Rugs

    • Roma Woman Selling Rugs

    • Markets

    • This is part of the market portrait photos. (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 "piaČ›a" or market. In...
    • Volunteer Photos

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