It was a mid-afternoon day on May 2004 at Mpika, Zambia in the Northern Province. This picture is taken on the Great North Road at the junction that goes to Kasama. The BP Station is the only one in the district and a place I have spent countless...
After the first year of service, I moved to a new apartment that had been occupied by a former Volunteer. She had left in one of the closets a few blankets. Another Volunteer in Arad and I decided to bring those blankets to a very poor family that...
I took this photo in 2001, while working with a community member, and good friend, Miguel. He works in the forestry and cattle industries in Eastern Honduras.
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...
This picture was taken by my sister Karen when she came to visit me in Nicaragua in 2001. I got to wash our clothes by hand on the pila, a concrete washboard and sink. This was a source of great amusement and connection with my grandmother who...
This picture was taken of my host sisters in the village of Katuyola, Zambia in 2002. They found these large mushrooms in the bush...they were delicious!
This photo was taken in November 2004, as I celebrated Thanksgiving with my friends, the Obidin family. We had such fun cooking and eating a traditional Thanksgiving meal, substituting chicken for turkey. They especially enjoyed my home-made...
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...
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...
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...