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    • Teachers' Day Festivities

    • Teachers' Day Festivities

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • Celebrating a hard fought but entertaining win at the Teachers' Day Games between the Teachers and the students at the Kharkiv Gymnasium, Kharkiv Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Deyed Marozh/ Santa Claus

    • Deyed Marozh/ Santa Claus

    • Schools; Celebrations; Host community friends

    • The largest common celebration of the former Soviet Eastern Europe is the New Year. The New Year is ushered in by Deyed Marozh or Grandfather Frost, who looks a lot like Santa Claus, and whose purpose is to bring happiness and hope for the new...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Noogies

    • Noogies

    • Children; Games; Host community friends

    • Here I am teaching a true American tradition of noogies to one of my little gullible friends! Noogie, noogie, noogie!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Agriculture

    • A welcome dinner hosted by the executive members of Binaba Women's Farmers Association (BWFA) at my house in January 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children in San Benito Pointe, Toledo District

    • Children in San Benito Pointe, Toledo District

    • Children; Pre-service Training (PST); Housing

    • San Benito Poite is one of the most remote villages in Belize. It is about 40 miles from the nearest district town, and about 3 miles from the border with Guatemala. The town where I served was about 7 hours from here (on a good day in the dry...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Papaya!

    • Papaya!

    • Food and Meals; Agriculture

    • In the summer of 2006, I joined some of the teachers at the YWCA in Belize City (where I was a Volunteer) in taking a group of 50 children to a papaya farm in the northern part of Belize. This trip was part of the Community Development programs...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Omazera Wedding

    • Omazera Wedding

    • Celebrations; Weddings; Traditional Dress

    • In Herero tradition, weddings are week-long (or longer) events. Throughout the duration of the festivities, the bride is kept hidden inside a house on the homestead, her face hidden beneath a veil. On the last day of the celebration, the female...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Art of Silk Weaving

    • The Art of Silk Weaving

    • Artisans; Host community friends

    • I took this photo during one of my visits to a silk weaving group in my community. I was located in a subdistrict of 13 villages. Almost every house in every village had a weaving loom -all day you would hear the wood hitting the loom to make the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Last Bell Ceremony

    • Last Bell Ceremony

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Work; Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This picture was taken on May 31st, 2007 on the last day of school at Zhovkva Secondary School Number 1 in Western Ukraine. These three girls have just finished first grade and are wearing traditional Ukrainian clothing. They're holding flowers...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Bride Brings Luck to Unmarried Women

    • New Bride Brings Luck to Unmarried Women

    • Weddings; Celebrations; Dance

    • This picture was taken in September 2007 at the wedding of my neighbors Zenick and Marta in Zhovkva, a small town in Western Ukraine. After the church and town hall ceremonies, the couple threw an elaborate reception complete with dinner and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandmothers' Participation in Town Celebration

    • Grandmothers' Participation in Town Celebration

    • Elders; Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • In April 2007 I traveled to Poltava Oblast in the center of Ukraine to visit a fellow Volunteer. I took this picture in Reshetylivka, her town, on the anniversary of the town's founding. These women are babusiyas (grandmothers) and they're...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Unusual (and Everyday) Neighbors

    • My Unusual (and Everyday) Neighbors

    • Housing; Animals

    • This picture was taken in the spring of 2006 in Zhovkva, a small town in Western Ukraine. This is my neighbor's house and his fowl which frequented the side of the road that ran in between his house and mine. They often chased after me as I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Long Jump

    • Long Jump

    • Games; Sports; Schools; Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in the last hours of Waterberg Primary School's Annual Athletics event. Students, divided into red and blue teams, participate in track and field events all day in a field just outside of the school grounds. Here, a 5th grade...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Herero Funeral

    • Herero Funeral

    • Funerals; Ceremonies; Traditional dress

    • At a funeral in a rural village in Namibia, four women from the Herero tribe show their sympathy by gathering outside the home of the person who has passed away. The women are wearing traditional Herero dress (derived from the Victorian dresses of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Arriving Home from the River at Dusk

    • Arriving Home from the River at Dusk

    • Transportation; Work; Host community friends

    • I took this photo one evening as I was walking home. It was taken in February of 2006, in the pueblo of Miramar where I lived. Miramar is a small agricultural town located on the River Chira in Paita, Piura, Peru -- the northern coastal region of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fastiv Host Family

    • Fastiv Host Family

    • Host families

    • This is my host family in Fastiv, Ukraine: Volsy and wife with children, Tonya, Pasha, and baby Natasia. I lived with them for three months from March 2005-May 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos

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