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    • Grandmother in Lesotho

    • Grandmother in Lesotho

    • Host families; Elders; Housing

    • My host family Grandmother. Too old to work in the fields, she spends most days sitting against the stone wall of her hut absorbing the heat of the stones. She patiently sorts grain and beans, watches the goings-on of the village and sends all her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lesotho Bus Ride

    • Lesotho Bus Ride

    • Transportation

    • Waiting for the Lesotho Freight Bus to take us from Qacha's Nek to Sethlabathebe National Park. Our backpacks were loaded in the undercarriage of the bus, along with a few reluctant sheep.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cultural Exchange in Lesotho

    • Cultural Exchange in Lesotho

    • Children; Host community friends

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer and a herd boy enjoy time together at Semonkong Falls in Lesotho. Children in Lesotho are usually curious about white skin and this boy really wanted to check out the Volunteer’s hand. This duo was with a group of children...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saying Goodbye to My Students

    • Saying Goodbye to My Students

    • Host community friends;

    • This is a photo of my counterpart, myself, and our 5th and 6th grade students on the last day of school in my last year of service. It was taken at our school, minutes before their final English exam took place.
    • 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
    • Girl Fetching Water

    • Girl Fetching Water

    • Work; Water and sanitation; Host community friends

    • The girl pictured in this photo is fetching water from the TAMASCO Dam in Tamale, N/R Ghana - where I was working with the Carter Center, International Aid, and a group of Masters of Engineering students from MIT on household water treatment...
    • 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
    • Market in Ghana

    • Market in Ghana

    • Agriculture; Food and meals; Markets; Work

    • The woman in the picture is seated at her stand at the open-air Nakpanduri market in northeastern Ghana. She is selling hot red peppers or "peppe" and fresh okra - two staples in the Ghanaian diet, especially as ingredients in the soups and stews...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Mom and I

    • Host Mom and I

    • Host families; Housing

    • This is a photo taken in the fall 2005 in my assigned village of Zongo Mozague, Niger. The woman and child are my "host mom" Aicha and her son Oumarou, aka "Umu." This is in front of her mud-brick home, just after we had finished a lunch of milk...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Little Grown-ups in Niger

    • Little Grown-ups in Niger

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This photo was taken on the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Fitr, known in Hausa as "Salla," which follows a month of fasting. These girls are from the village of Zongo Mozague, where I was fortunate enough to spend a year of my Peace Corps Niger Service....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • American-Khmer Family Portrait

    • American-Khmer Family Portrait

    • Host families

    • This is a photo of me, my American parents and my immediate Khmer host-family members. This was taken a year into my service in Cambodia (April 2008) at my host-family's house in Peam ChiKang village.
    • 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
    • Hanging Out at the Wat

    • Hanging Out at the Wat

    • Architecture; Religion; Children

    • This is one my favorite photos from my service in Cambodia. This photo was taken during my pre-service training in Kampong Siem district in Kampong Cham province. The wat (more commonly known as a pagoda) aren't just used for religious...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Waiting Room

    • The Waiting Room

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Celebrations

    • This is a photo taken on April 4, 2007, the day our group of Peace Corps trainees became the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Cambodia. We were placed in the backroom of a hall on the campus of the National Institute of Education...
    • 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
    • Picnic Song

    • Picnic Song

    • Host community friends; Music; Food and meals

    • Waiting for freshly slaughtered sheep to boil, some community friends enjoy drinks and music in the Darkhan-uul Aimag countryside of Mongolia.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mother tree

    • Mother tree

    • Ceremonies

    • My counterparts blind grandmother paying her respects to the Mother Tree, a sacred site to Mongolia's shamanistic believers. Sukhbaatar, Mongolia. 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cold Winter

    • Cold Winter

    • Housing

    • I took this photo in December 2008, during the freezing cold -40 Celsius winter as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia. I tanned a few sheep skins in order to add some warmth and cushion to my apartment's fold-out chairs.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bituun Celebration

    • Bituun Celebration

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Food and meals

    • I took this photo with my host family during Bituun, the traditional moonless night before Lunar New Year 'Tsagaan Sar' holiday celbrated by Mongolian nationals. Family members get together, typically join in a feast comprised of a slaughtered...
    • Volunteer Photos

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