I took this photo while biking on the road from my home in Spaldings, Jamaica to my work at Knox Community College. The photo evokes the scents and sounds of rural Jamaica to me.
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...
This picture of two of my farmers' fish ponds in the village of Katuyola, Zambia. This photo was taken on the morning of our first fish harvest in 2002. It was a bit chilly and a mist was rising off the pond's surface. The pond on the right is...
The sheep herders in the Bran area of rural Romania sometimes pick up and carry a lamb who is not keeping pace with the herd. This lamb got a ride on the herder's donkey.
Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment
I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...
This photo was taken at the beach in Alligator Pond, Jamaica in 2004. The south coast of Jamaica has a large ing community, and when the morning's catch in brought in, people from local towns would come down to the beach to haggle for . Some of my...
It was 2003 and the end of my service in Mlangeni, Malawi. I had worked hard, especially with the youth raising awareness regarding HIV/AIDS and facilitating a rural volunteer counseling and testing program. All of these faces were a part of the...
This is a sunset view overlooking a small village of Cristest during the summer of 2004 as I was visiting one of my Romanian colleagues’ home in Moldova region. This scene shows a typical rural landscape found in Northeastern part of Romania. ...
During Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World), our campers were paired with local orphans for a games day. This particular game consisted of a relay where participants had to race towards a plate of flour to out M&Ms with their mouths. Predictably, it...
this photo was taken in march 2004 in Nabukavesi VIllage, Fiji. They were putting on a ceremony to welcome the new computers to the school in my Village.
The streets were papered before local elections. Each candidate had their own symbol that people could identify and vote for even if they were not literate.
Christmas was big in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. There were a couple of christian churches in town and this particular one really put on a show around Christmas.