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    • Hindu child in Bangladesh

    • Hindu child in Bangladesh

    • youth; religion

    • This little girl is a devout Hindu at a temple in Gopalganj Bangladesh. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I walked by this temple every day and could not help to notice her beauty and dedication to taking care of her family, which is so normal for all...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Comilla Outreach

    • Comilla Outreach

    • youth development; community development; health

    • Pinky, my student at the Department of Youth Development, is teaching a hygiene class in a poor part of Comilla. One part of our class involved a community outreach project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Quiche Wedding 2005

    • Quiche Wedding 2005

    • Weddings

    • This photograph was taken at the wedding of Peace Corps Volunteer, Terese Maineri (Rural Youth at Risk 2003-2005) to Mateo Velasquez Lopez. The couple will be celebrating their 7th year anniversary on July 30, 2012.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Group of Friends

    • Group of Friends

    • Host families; Traditional dress

    • A photo of me with a group of friends after everyone was dressing up for some photos before I went home for a vacation (I was sort of extended family) eating most of my meals and spending a lot of free time with this group and their husbands and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ay Baba

    • Ay Baba

    • Host families; Host community friends; Celebrations

    • Like many Peace Corps Volunteers before and after me, Seyni was my Baba (father). Being posted in Dosso, Niger where Seyni was the Peace Corps Program Assistant, I became very close to him and his family. It was a rare day that I did not hear the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bulgarian Snow

    • Bulgarian Snow

    • Climate

    • Enjoying my first winter with my host family in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria. This photo was taken outside their flat by my host brother in the winter of 2003.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tangalala

    • Tangalala

    • children; host community friends

    • This little girl was in my training village. She was very very shy but loved to look at the pictures on my digital camera. If I brought my camera out she would peek out of her room. I took this in Navutulevu Village in November 2006.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Happy to see you

    • Happy to see you

    • children; host community friends

    • I took this photo in Fiji in September 2006. I had only been in Fiji for 1 day. I got up in the morning and walked to the beach to watch the sun rise, soon after these girls saw me down on the beach and started running towards me, so i snapped...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ground Breaking Ceremony

    • Ground Breaking Ceremony

    • Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This is a photo that I took of the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2004 for the new Youth Training Center in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. It was a grand ceremony with everyone getting dressed up for the local member of parliament.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • warriors

    • warriors

    • celebrations

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Election Night

    • Election Night

    • Celebrations

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aftermath of M&M Relay Race

    • Aftermath of M&M Relay Race

    • Camps and clubs; Work; Children

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the Edge of Tranquility

    • At the Edge of Tranquility

    • Terrain

    • 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. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morning Catch in Alligator Pond

    • Morning Catch in Alligator Pond

    • Work; Environment; Women in Peace Corps; Fishing

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos

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