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- St. Lucia Disability Camp
- Youth; Camps and clubs
- A disabiled teenager was walking with difficulty at a Peace Corps supported Disability Camp in St. Lucia. I asked if I could take her picture. She first said, "No, I am not pretty." I said "Yes you are pretty!"and she allowed me to take her...
- Staff Photos
- Giant Chess
- Youth development; Schools; Secondary Projects
- This picture was taken just after we finished painting a giant chess board on the gravel lot outside my school attachment. We decided to make the pieces out of recycled bottles. In the picture is me and the youth and sports teacher.
- Volunteer Photos
- Team Building
- Youth development; Camps and clubs
- This is a photo of a team-building exercise I did with one of the youth groups I worked with.
- Volunteer Photos
- Latin Locks of Love
- youth;
- I took this photo July 19, 2011 in Ecuador. After school, this 12 year old girl and her mother visited their local hair salon and chopped off more than 12" each. They had been planning to donate their hair for months - the little girl had seen an...
- Volunteer Photos
- Mujeres Poderosas
- Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development
- This photo that I took in January, 2011, shows young teenage girls from the Andes mountains in Shilla, Peru on their first day of the club Mujeres Poderosas (Powerful Women) in which they participated in a 6 week workshop where we talked about...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Mighty Kenny and Me
- Teachers and students; Ecotourism
- I took this photo in July 2009 on a school trip with the Savanne Paille Primary School from Savanne Paille, Dominica. We visited Scottshead, Dominica which has a peninsula where the Caribbean Sea is on one side and the Atlantic Ocean is on the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan
- Teachers and students; Camps and clubs; Schools; Celebrations
- This photo was taken in November 2009 shortly after I arrived at my site in Kazakhstan. This was one of the first English Clubs I held in the local Kazakh school. The photo shows myself and the children, and their completed Thanksgiving turkeys...
- Volunteer Photos
- Eastern Caribbean Group 79
- Swearing-in ceremonies; Volunteers
- Our group just after swearing in, April 2009. From left to right: speaker, Sharmon Jules (Associate Peace Corps Director), Margo Jeanchild (Eastern Caribbean Director), Mara English (Volunteer), Aria Grabowski (Volunteer), trainer, Ann Maize...
- 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
- Cricket Celebration
- Sports; Music; Celebrations
- This photo was taken in July 2009 at the Dominica National Stadium. The cricket match was the West Indies vs. Bangladesh. During the match, I joined in a Lapo Cabwit band with other horn blowers and drummers.
- Volunteer Photos
- Goal!
- Sports; Children
- This is a photo of Tomarjay & myself during an afternoon football game. At the time, Tomarjay was a grade 6 student at the primary school. He and I traveled with out school team to the neighboring village to watch the boys football match. Here,...
- 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
- Hot Body, Cool Tile
- Secondary projects; Teachers and students
- Volunteer Stories
- 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
- It Takes a Village (And a Whole Lot of Aluminum Cans)
- Secondary projects
- Volunteer Stories
- Life Skills
- Schools; Teachers and students; Youth; Education
- This is a photo of a class doing life skills at my school attachment. The principal and I worked together to get the classes started.
- 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