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- Laura with Students at the ENSUP
- Youth; Teachers and students; Work
- This photo was taken during the summer of 1991, shortly before I finished my work in Mali as a teacher trainer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, or l'ENSUP, in Bamako, Mali. These were the greatest students...they had survived a coup d'etat, in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Literacy Camp
- Teachers and students; Literacy
- This photo was taken on World Literacy Day in 2009 in Fiji. The special education school I work with organized a 3-day literacy festival and invited other nearby volunteers to assist with the event. This photo shows a Peace Corps Volunteer playing...
- Volunteer Photos
- Guinea Pig Festival
- Animals; Cooking; Celebrations
- I took this photo during the Guinea Pig Festival on April 4, 2010 in in Ecuador. The Guinea Pig Festival, or Festival del Cuy, is a fundraiser started by the local parish as a means to raise funds for social projects in the community. That year,...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Third Wise Man: Pase del Niño
- Celebrations; Ceremonies
- I took this photo on December 19th, 2008 in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. A local boy's mother is preparing him for the parade of the traveling child (niño viajero) through the city of Cuenca. The main parade in Cuenca takes place in the week...
- Volunteer Photos
- Snow in Africa
- Climate; Host families
- This is my little brother during a snow day in village. My host father woke me up early so i could see the snow, then as i walked out of my house, the first snowball hit me, well aimed and delivered by my little brother.
- Volunteer Photos
- Back Home: How Peace Corps Ecuador Changed Me
- Cross-cultural transition;
- Volunteer Stories
- Gallo Pinto, Peace Corps Style
- Food and meals
- This is my version of Costa Rica's most traditional breakfast, gallo pinto. Gallo pinto literally means "speckled rooster", and this dish gets its name from its speckled appearance of the two main ingredients, beans and rice. The dish also includes...
- Volunteer Photos
- Pupusas
- Food and meals; Celebrations
- Pupusas are the national snack of El Salvador. They are made with corn or rice flour, and stuffed with cheese and other ingredients (beans, chicharron, ayote, etc.). Pupusas are eaten in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but El Salvador claims...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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