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    • Adobe House Construction in Rural Panama

    • Adobe House Construction in Rural Panama

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken by my APCD during his visit to my site in the village of El Limon in the Republic of Panama on November 20, 2005. The photo shows community members and I mixing the straw and adobe in our bare feet in order to construct the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Best Friends

    • New Best Friends

    • Host families; Children

    • This photo was taken in the Comarca Ngobe Bugle, Panama in 2007 during my site visit, part of the pre-service training. The host mom and dad were too busy preparing meals but the host brothers and sisters took me around the neighborhood posing for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Jose Domingo

    • Jose Domingo

    • Host Families

    • This is my host brother having his hair washed by my host mom. He was born only a week after I arrived at my site. Because of that, it was always easy to remember how old he was. I took this picture close to the end of my service, so that means...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Banana-powered Bicycles

    • Banana-powered Bicycles

    • Host community; Transportation; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken August 25th, 2007 along the Pan-American Highway near my site in Paraugay. It shows my wife and I joking with Paraguayans about how we get around on banana-powered bicycles.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Cute Little Neighbor

    • My Cute Little Neighbor

    • Host community friends; Children; Traditional dress

    • This is a photo of my 3-year old neighbor who is a cousin of my host siblings. She is wearing the traditional woven clothing typical of rural Mayan communities in Guatemala.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reese and Boris

    • Reese and Boris

    • Host community friends

    • Strolling around on a Sunday afternoon after working in the training garden with my home-stay brother called Boris. Taken in the village of Mbo near Baffoussam, Western Province, Cameroon on December 13, 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • Gardens

    • Photo taken in June 2008, San Juan de Pequeni, Chagres National Park, Rep. of Panama. Response Volunteer, Jacob Slusser seen with OCASP reforestation group and their first native tree seedlings in a small tree nursery. The saplings were to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • Forestry

    • PCRV Jacob Slusser seen with OCASP reforestation group and their first native tree seedlings in a small tree nursery. The saplings were to reforest riparian areas that are important for the Panama Canal Watershed. June 2008, San Juan de Pequeni,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style

    • Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style

    • Food and meals; Host community; Host community friends

    • This photo taken on August 27th, 2006 shows my wife and I engaged in the classic Paraguayan ritual with our favorite progressive farmer in our site in Paraguay. Sharing the indigenous green tea, yerba mate, with a communal cup is the universal way...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Judith and her Fishponds

    • Judith and her Fishponds

    • Fishing; Host community friends

    • This photo is of Judith, more often known as BanaEster, at her farm near Kazembe, Zambia in 2007. She's standing in front of two of her fishponds. As an aquaculture Volunteer, I worked with BanaEster on expanding her fish ponds and improving...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fish Fête

    • Fish Fête

    • Fishing; Celebrations

    • I took this photo during fish fête, an annual festival in the desert of Haute Guinea. These festivals take place after the dry season, when there is a lake left where the river usually flows during rainy season. These lakes are not fished until...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Fishing on the Niger

    • Women Fishing on the Niger

    • Fishing

    • Women in Tiguibery, Guinea, fish with their children in tow. After catching the tiny fish, the women gracefully placed their catch in the calabash bowls balanced on their heads. The dry season on the Niger River also allows locals to do their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rice Paddy Training

    • Rice Paddy Training

    • Counterparts

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Isabi

    • Isabi

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • My neighbors (Enna Bunda, Irene Chibwe, and Rose Mkupa) fry fish using a newly completed fuel efficient stove near Kazembe, Zambia in 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Higinio and Tomas Toast Coffee

    • Higinio and Tomas Toast Coffee

    • Cooking

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Walking With Pails

    • Women Walking With Pails

    • Construction

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos

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