Norma Joy Carey joined the Peace Corps Jamaica staff in June 1980. During her 30 years tenure she served us in the capacity of Senior Administrative Secretary, Alternate Cashier and Timekeeper. In later years, she was the Programming and Training...
On November 15th, 2007, I took this photo in my site of the president of the San Isidro farmers' committee, proudly displaying his committee's tools for no-till agriculture: a direct seeder ("sembradora") and roller crimper ("rollo cuchillo") for...
I took this photo on October 18th, 2007 in my site in Paraguay. Neni is demonstrating a creative reuse of the abundant sour orange rinds available in the community: plantable seed-starting pots.
I took this photo on February 23rd, 2008 at a roadside farm stand in Paraguay. My wife was joking with the local boy in Guarani about which one is the tastiest.
This photo from August 24th, 2007 was taken in my site of Ruta'i, Torin, Caaguazu in Paraguay. It is of a boy loading an oxcart with sugarcane that will be used to feed other animals.
During my pre-service training (June 2007) I visited a site in Hato Chami, Panama. Here the local artisans are showing us how to weave strings to make bags.
Three girls of a close family in the village of Tanka, Niger. It must have been bath time. The photo was taken in 2006 and it captures each of their personalities so perfectly.
After being away from the village for a week, I came home and found this- my girls and my small gentleman playing on the ground outside of our compound. they were so excited that their very own foreign entertainment was finally home and when I took...
Building a new home in rural Zambia takes a lot of time and effort. On May 30, 2008, in the small village of Chiposa in the Luapula province, much of the community helped to build a home of mud bricks and dried grass for a struggling family in the...
In a project directed at increasing revenues by fully processing the local, high-altitude coffee, Tomas and Higinio toast coffee inside an old building built by the government and mining companies. The Ngäbes have recently protested the...
In conjunction with my neighbor (also a Volunteer), we are training our counterparts how to construct and plant rice paddies in the rural areas of Panama, 2008.