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- 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
- 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
- A Day in the Barrio
- Youth; Teachers and students;
- This photo was taken in my barrio in Ecuador. This photo shows two of my students and me walking to our girls' youth group meeting. January 2010
- 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
- Otavalo: a Technicolor Assault of the Senses
- Artisans; Markets
- Volunteer Stories
- Composting
- Camps and clubs
- This photo was taken in July 2010, as I'm surrounded by fifth and sixth graders of primary school in Club Huascaran in the school in my site in Peru. I formed this environmental club to promote conserving and protecting the environment as well as...
- Volunteer Photos
- Steel Pan
- Camps and Clubs; Teachers and Students; Music
- This picture was taken at an Expo put on by the St. Lucia Peace Corps volunteers to display what Peace Corps is all about. During the expo some of us volunteers played the national anthems with a Lucian steel pan group that we joined. Afterward we...
- Volunteer Photos
- Summer Camp Sports
- Camps and clubs; Youth
- In August 2009 I held a summer camp in my village of Cottage, Dominica. This is a picture of some of the kids and I waiting in line to get a chance to hit during our rounders match.
- Volunteer Photos
- Chess Club
- Camps and Clubs; Youth development; Teachers and Students
- This is a photo of the chess club at my school attachment. I helped get the club started and my grandparents donated chess sets and teaching boards. This photo was taken just after the kids finished playing a simultaneous game with our Peace Corps...
- 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
- Kreshenye
- Celebrations; Climate
- Kreshenye, a Russian Orthodox holiday, is celebrated on the 19th of January in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan by dipping three times in the frozen river Ishim, which is blessed for the occasion. Young and old take part every year, despite the...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2010
- Celebrations; HIV/AIDS
- This was a World AIDS Day March that I organized along with New Life Organization in Grenville, Grenada. We distributed information about HIV and AIDS, a list of places that provide free testing and counseling, and red awareness ribbons.
- Volunteer Photos
- Team Building
- Celebrations; Host community friends
- This photo was taken July 9, 2011 in Tryavna, Bulgaria, with a group of four volunteers who were taking part in Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary activities. The photo depicts a team building activity we are preparing to perform, and I am...
- Volunteer Photos
- Youth Development In The Sun
- Celebrations; Host community friends; games
- This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Thanksgiving
- Celebrations; Volunteers
- Enjoying some good eats at our Thanksgiving bash!
- Volunteer Photos
- Caught in the Rain
- Children
- In August of 2009, I held a children's summer camp in my village of Cottage, Dominica. While we were taking a nature walk we got caught in a downpour and took shelter under a "Christmas" tree until the rain stopped.
- Volunteer Photos
- Project Kids
- Children
- These are three young girls from my village. Tamia, Tihara, & Tatiyana spend many afternoons just outside my front gate. They can be found playing games, racing each other, and gently harassing anyone passing by. I was attempting to take a photo of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Santa in the West Indies
- Children; Celebrations
- This is a picture of the preschoolers at Cottage Faith Preschool in Cottage, Dominica. They are showing off Santa crafts they made for the the upcoming 2009 Christmas season.
- Volunteer Photos
- Illuminating
- Children; Celebrations; Religion
- I took this photo while in a nearby town in October of 2009 during the town's week-long party celebrating their saint's day. To commemorate the celebration, all the women placed candles on the church floor which cast a glow somehow sad and hopeful...
- Volunteer Photos
- Coming Home from the Chacras
- children; Host families
- Walking around my site during my second month there in October, 2009, I happened to have my camera on me taking pictures of all the new and beautiful things Shilla, Ancash, Peru had to offer, when I came upon my host sister (20 years old at the...
- Volunteer Photos