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    • Los Multiplicadores de Los Limones

    • Los Multiplicadores de Los Limones

    • Celebrations

    • This photo is of the youth group in one community in which I worked, Los Limones. The event is of a graduation of the "Escojo Mi Vida!" (I choose my life) curriculum in which youth learned about Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS, self...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • American School Visits Ben Guerir

    • American School Visits Ben Guerir

    • Art

    • This photo was taken during a U.S. school group's visit to Ben Guerir. During the visit, the group of young people from Ben Guerir and young people from America talked, played games, and shared lunch at the house of a local youth center member. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Common Love

    • A Common Love

    • Animals; Host families

    • My host sister Liza and I cuddling one of the newest members of the family. This picture was taken May 21, 2006 in Trypillia, Ukraine towards the end of my training. I had become so attached to my host family I didn't even want to think about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Desert Trek

    • Desert Trek

    • Animals; Counterparts; Terrain

    • I had the opportunity to take a camel trek in the Sahara Desert during my Peace Corps service in Morocco. Here, I am joined by my teaching colleague and friend, and other friends during the camel trek in the spring of 2007. I never knew there were...
    • 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
    • Chilly English Class

    • Chilly English Class

    • Schools; Climate; Teachers and students; Work

    • These 7th-grade students in Samtredia, Georgia are working on their English assignments in full winter gear. We had a small wood heater in our classroom, which was more than what the other classrooms had, but often the heat was not enough to warm...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wetland in Reserve

    • Wetland in Reserve

    • Terrain; Environment

    • This is a photo of a wetland in the wildlife reserve I helped manage--a home for flocks of birds and large fish. The characteristics of the wetlands varied by season: during some parts of the year, the entire area in this photo would be flooded; at...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Kyrgyz Republic and Habitat for Humanity Team Up

    • Peace Corps Kyrgyz Republic and Habitat for Humanity Team Up

    • Volunteerism; Small Project Assistance (SPA); Architecture; Host community friends

    • I took this photo on-site in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on August 12th, 2006 during a joint project with the local Habitat for Humanity. The small project teamed Peace Corps Volunteers with local friends to encourage volunteerism within their own...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Class Time

    • Class Time

    • Teachers and students; Climate

    • Before I successfully completed my Small Project Assistance (SPA) grant to reconstruct three classrooms of Instituto Nacional Azarias Henry Pallais in Corinto, Nicaragua, we were forced to hold class outside on the basketball court. There was no...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Recess Time with Students

    • Recess Time with Students

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo shows Volunteer Kimberly Joyce along with students from the Salvation Army School in Belize City, Belize. We are all taking a moment to pose for a picture while spending time outdoors in the school yard during recess.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chavalos

    • Chavalos

    • Teachers and students

    • Me with my counterpart Rosita and one of our first-year classes at the Instituto Nacional Azarias Henry Pallais in Corinto, Nicaragua. This class included all of the misfits and repeating students in one section. The typical first-year student...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Art; World Map Project

    • The photo was taken in March of 2008. My students and I were working on a World Map Project. We took a large wall that everyone walks past at the school and drew a mural of a world map. This photo shows us in the finishing stages of painting it. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fifth and Sixth Grade Class in Vanuatu

    • Fifth and Sixth Grade Class in Vanuatu

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This is at the end of the school day as my students were leaving. The class was a combination 5th and 6th grade. A total of 20 students would sit in this room for instruction. The walls are made by weaving coconut palm. The girls in the photo are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Badjeo Village

    • Badjeo Village

    • Literacy; Children

    • Two days a week I taught basic English skills to a nomadic group along the waterfront in Roxas, Palawan. They moved whenever they needed a new place to catch fish for sale in the town. Thus, they did not have any formal education. The informal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Errego Science Fair

    • Errego Science Fair

    • Education; Teachers and students

    • My colleague, a fellow Biology teacher, listens to an 8th grade Mozambican student as he presents his science fair project on plant growth, at the first ever science fair in Errego, Mozambique.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students Hard at Work in Ghana

    • Students Hard at Work in Ghana

    • Education; Children

    • Three of my best students studied long into the night preparing for their WASSCE (West African Secondary School Certificate Examination). The three students pictured are from Nakpanduri Business Secondary School in Nakpanduri, N/R, Ghana - where I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Opening - A day for Celebrating!

    • Opening - A day for Celebrating!

    • Youth; Architecture; Libraries

    • This is my partner and I on the day of the long-awaited opening of our Youth Resource Center. The building had been a library in Soviet times. The town gave us the building, and we worked - with many youth volunteers and PCPP funds - to convert...
    • Volunteer Photos

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