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...
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.
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.
I took this picture during a relaxing day at the Negril Beach. The sky turned from brilliant blue and sunny to dark and cloudy in a matter of minutes. One wonders as the fate of the 'Reef Princess' as she lies quietly upon the tranquil sea awaiting...
In Bangladesh there are many rivers to cross in order to get from one district to another. It is a fact of life for a country that lies below sea level and is crisscrossed with thousands of waterways. Most ferries like the one in Khulna pack on as...
I love introducing my children to friends I made when serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. In this photo my son Alberto is playing soccer with Enrique Reynoso, the son of a friend I met during community base training in Santa Cruz del...
One of my favorite jobs in Morocco was mentoring youth at a juvenile facility in Fes, the country's oldest city. Some of the kids joined me for a candid moment after an attempt to teach them a few words in English in the fall of 2006.
This is a picture of the Volunteer playing basketball with local youth behind the youth center. The hoops were renovated with funding from a Peace Corps/USAID SPA grant.
While serving in Jamaica (05-07) I worked at Mocho Primary School (what we would call an elementary school). I went through the school when I was first there and took many photos of the students, including several striking portraits. In this...
This is a photo of an elementary school boy. In the afternoons some students would come to my house, which was across from the school. In this photo this fourth grade boy is standing in front of my door, looking directly and probingly at me. The...
This photo was taken in a little alcove in the yard of the primary school where I served. The enclosure is made by heavy foliage overgrowing a barbed-wire fence. The students had taken in some chairs, in various states of disrepair, to sit on and...
Aicha Boulmahuahib was the midwife at the local hospital at Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco where I lived for 2 years. The day I met her, we automatically started developing health workshops for women in the community. Also, I assisted her on...
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...
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...
I returned to visit my counterparts at AFEDES in Santiago Sacatepequez Guatemala March 24, 2010. My counterpart and dear friend, Milvian Aspuac was married and had a baby since I returned to my site in 2008. This photo is of my son, Milvian, her...
This is a photo I took while visiting the family members of one of my community friends in La Vega, Dominican Republic. What was originally just an experiment testing out my new camera, turned into a fascinating portrait of Dominican "campo"...
A group of youth holding pamphlets containing information about HIV/AIDS distributed during the second HIV/AIDS community awareness campaign we completed during my service.
This is a photo of the Candlelight Memorial for victims of HIV/AIDS that we completed during my service. It has been an annual event in the community each year since. Pictured are local participants in the event.