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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Cambodian Classroom

    • Cambodian Classroom

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken of my 12A class early in my service (circa 2007) at the Samdech Hun Sen Peam ChiKang Upper Secondary School in Peam ChiKang village, Kang Meas district, Kampong Cham province. This is a typical Cambodian classroom.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Lining Up

    • Lining Up

    • Sports; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken in Kampong Cham town, Kampong Cham province in early 2008. This photo is of the first girl's basketball team from Peam ChiKang USS (green jerseys) lining up prior to the start of their first competition of the season (which, I...
    • 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
    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Saint Patrick's Day Celebration

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations; Dance

    • My students (all future English teachers) at the Humanitarian Pedagogical College dance an Irish jig. Our celebration included a play, skits, songs, trivia, and this dance. My students loved to dance, but I am not a dance instructor and the only...
    • 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
    • The Eighth Grade Blues

    • The Eighth Grade Blues

    • Teachers and students; Girls' education

    • Several of my students in the village of Tougouri, Burkina Faso are "hanging out" in front of their classroom - no electricity and no water. It is an amazing feat that there are three girls in the picture as only about 10% of my students were...
    • 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
    • Fistula Center

    • Fistula Center

    • Women's movement

    • Mopti, Mali taken on August 07, 2008. I was giving a Moringa presentation as a part of a technical exchange with another Volunteer. The women at this center all had or were recovering from obstetric fistula.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Baseball in Morocco

    • Baseball in Morocco
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    • During my service, I played many sports and games with the youth of Ben Guerir, including baseball, American football, soccer, and frisbee. This photo captures our game of baseball adapted to work within the constraints of the cement field behind...
    • 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

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