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- Wedding in Azerbaijan
- Weddings
- This photo was taken at my wedding on November 21, 2009 in Naxchivan, Azerbaijan. I married my community counterpart after completing my first two years of service, and starting my third year. We participated in a traditional wedding ceremony for...
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map
- Teachers and Students; World Map Project
- This is a photo of Volunteer Aliyya painting a world map with her students in Guatemala.
- Volunteer Photos
- Swearing In - Guatemala
- Swearing-in ceremonies; Traditional dress
- Volunteers Aliyya Shelley and fellow Volunteer swear-in as Volunteers in July 2008. Aliyya Shelley and HCNs wearing traditional dress.
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map
- Secondary Projects; World Map Project
- This photo was taken inside a classroom at a men's prison in July of 2008 in Concepcion, Paraguay. I organized a world map mural with eight prisoners who were working on achieving their high school diplomas while they finished their prison...
- Volunteer Photos
- Secondary Projects: Fitness Center
- Secondary projects; Sports
- Development Volunteer Lauren Warchol and her Ukrainian counterpart opened a Fitness Center for youth in her community, with the help of a Small Projects Assistance Grant. The Center is run by student volunteers, who monitor the Center, take care of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Jumping for Joy...and for a Playground!
- Secondary projects
- This photo includes RPCV Teresa Havenar and Volunteer Patrick. It also includes two children, Alyona and Igor, that attended the school I was working at and who also helped build our playground. We were jumping for excitement over the delivery...
- Volunteer Photos
- Teaching Rural Guatemalan Students Life Skills
- Life skills; Schools; HIV/AIDS
- Volunteer Aliyya Shelley teaching life skills in a rural community in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. In this class, she is teaching prevention to HIV.
- Volunteer Photos
- Our Porcelain Goddess
- Housing
- After two years of service, Youth Development Volunteer Lauren Warchol knows to bring her own toilet paper to this bathroom in the government funded Social Services Center where she works in Ukraine. Not much more than a hole in the ground, but at...
- Volunteer Photos
- I Am
- Host families; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
- This photo was taken in beautiful Belize in spring 2011. My sister is the girl in the photo. She is a strong girl with strong opinions and in this photo she is stating a statement about her life.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Ukrainian Cooking Lesson
- Host families; Cooking
- Shortly after arriving to site and moving in with our host family, three generations of Ukrainians teach Lauren how to make varenyky, stuffed dumplings, which were then filled with sour cherries. A labor of love that is so worth the effort!
- Volunteer Photos
- My Host Mother
- Host families
- I took this photo in the summer of 2009 in my yard with my host mother in a small village in Ukraine. Summertime brings so many fresh fruits and vegetables to the market and such beautiful weather after the long hard winter that it is hard to keep...
- Volunteer Photos
- Celebrating Host Moms
- Host families
- Lynn Debilzen with her host mother and two sisters - Ruby, Mama, and Ann-Ann (L to R). Philippines.
- Volunteer Photos
- My New Mom
- Host families
- My host mom and I at my Swearing- In Ceremony, 10-31-2008. Since the day I arrived to St. Kitts Tracey has welcomed me into her family. About a week into my stay she was "mom" and I was "daughter."
- Volunteer Photos
- Celebrating My Moms
- Host families
- This photo was taken in southern Morocco, in my site, which is comfortably nestled into a river valley in the Sahara Desert. In April 2009, my mom came to visit me in Morocco. I treasure this picture, sitting in between my real mother (on the left)...
- Volunteer Photos
- Ya Ukrainka! Lera with Host Mum Maria
- Host families
- This photo was taken in March of 2006 in Uzyn, Kievskaya Oblast, Ukraine, when I had been living with my host family for about a month. On the right is my host "mother" Maria, making sure I was properly dressed to go out into the cold to use the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace
- host community friends
- I took this picture in 2006 in the village of Karapashi, Ukraine, Kiev Oblast. This is the maintenance man at the village's bread factory.
- Volunteer Photos
- HIV Workshop
- HIV/AIDS; Youth; Youth development
- Volunteer Aliyya Shelley giving an interactive HIV workshop to high school and university students in Guatemala (June 2009).
- Volunteer Photos
- Circle Reflection
- HIV/AIDS
- This photo was taken at one of the HIV and AIDS Prevention Education Workshops in Asuncion, Paraguay. These workshops were collaborative efforts from HIV and AIDS education professionals from the Ministry of Health and Peace Corps Volunteers....
- Volunteer Photos
- The Way They Learn
- HIV/AIDS
- This photo was taken in Capiata, Paraguay - a community located one hour outside the capitol. Often, it is referred to as a "dormotorio" community, or a place where you sleep, as the majority of the residents commute into the capitol for work. This...
- Volunteer Photos
- Elements of Discrimination
- HIV/AIDS
- This photo was taken at an HIV and AIDS prevention education workshop in Asuncion, Paraguay. The presenter is a professional educator who works with the National Secretariat of Children and Adolescents and had been working with this particular...
- Volunteer Photos