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- Well Work and Field Based Training
- Pre-service Training (PST); Environment; Water and Sanitation
- This is a photo of a field base training that I set up in my village Koporo-pen. We were doing a top well repair and another Volunteer and I took that opportunity to train Peace Corps trainees as well as our own village masons. We brought some...
- Volunteer Photos
- Going to the Bandiagara Market
- Transportation
- This photo was taken on our way to the Bandiagara market. I traveled with another volunteer Victor Quintana and friends from my village Koporo-Pen on their donkey carts. They were traveling to Bandiagara to sell their millet grains. Koporo-pen...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Telecenter Grand Opening
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); Celebrations
- Volunteer Marcella Crider helps youthful users log on to the computers on opening day of the Aprilci Telecenter, 15 September 2001.
- Volunteer Photos
- Boiling Wolf Traps
- Wildlife
- Cedar boils the modified leghold traps in herbs, along with our clothing and shoes, at the farmhouse in the village of Sadovic in western Bulgaria. With members of Balkani Wildlife Society, the next day we set the trapline and checked it twice a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Rangers at Dinner
- Environment
- After a long day of tracking wolves, rangers (and Volunteer C.A. Woulfe) have a dinner of bread and rakia in a forestry unit building without water or electricity in the Central Balkan National Park.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tracking Wolves
- Environment
- Marcella (Volunteer) and Costa check their new GPS while tracking wolves for the Balkani Wildlife Society in western Bulgaria
- Volunteer Photos
- Getting married in Sofia
- Weddings; Celebrations
- Pledging our children to communism (since the text of the ceremonies had not changed since the 1980s).
- Volunteer Photos
- Craftsmen Guild Meeting
- One of the first meetings of a new Aprilci Craftsmens Guild in the Tourist Office, with a Volunteer, Marcella Crider, crafts persons, and the Director of the Tourist Bureau, Doncho Pachnikov (Notice that the heat was not on that day).
- Volunteer Photos
- Aprilci Telecenter
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); Celebrations
- The Aprilci Telecenter opened 15 September 2001, with Bulgarian and American flags flying. The photo shows the Mayor, Sawmill owner, Telecenter manager, and Volunteer.
- Volunteer Photos
- Host Family in Ukraine
- Host families
- This photo was taken on New Year's Eve, 2001 in the home of my host family in Berdychev, Ukraine. The family members were each dressed in their best clothes to celebrate the coming of Father Christmas at midnight. It was such a marvelous...
- Volunteer Photos
- Puchov Playground
- Secondary projects
- Took this photo on my return to Slovakia in May 2005, four years after I left. It is the playground that was built after our successful public relations campaign that included grant writing, community involvement and fund raising. *Note that my...
- Volunteer Photos
- Latvia Group 9 Volunteers
- Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers
- The Volunteers of Group 9 Latvia gather with Peace Corps training staff in Valmiera, Latvia toward the end of our training in Summer 2000. We are in the ruins of a castle believed to have been built in the 1280s.
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Celebration of the Ligo and Jani Day Festival
- Youth; Celebrations
- This photo was taken during my training summer 2000 in Valmiera, Latvia. This photo shows the Latvian tradition of jumping over a fire for good luck throughout the next year on the shortest night of the year. Latvia celebrates the Summer Solstice...
- Volunteer Photos
- Theresa and Wendy Hiking to Togo, Niue Island
- This is a photo of Wendy and I (both Volunteers) in Niue hiking through the bush in Niue to get to an incredible place along the east coast of the island.
- 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
- Youth at Dance Performance
- Children; Youth; Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations
- Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
- Volunteer Photos
- Theresa with Host Family at Church
- Host families; Religion
- This was taken after Church in the village of Hakupu one Sunday with my host family - Mother Tiva Toeono and twins Simoe and Anton. Ladies over 18 years old had to wear hats to Church and the women weaved incredibly beautiful hats they loved to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Two Volunteers with Sunday School Class
- Religion; Youth
- Wendy and I (Theresa) usually took the kids in our village - Avatele - each week during the Church service over to the Pastor's house to do some activities with them. Church was a very important part of village life and there were two services...
- Volunteer Photos
- International Women's Day
- Celebrations; Women's movement; Food and meals; International Women's Day
- International Women's Day Celebration in Niue, South Pacific in 2000. The women gathered to show their crafts, watch and perform in dances and songs and of course, eat delicious Niuean food! This was the buffet table - as colorful as the women...
- Volunteer Photos