The Peace Corps Program and Training Specialist from Zambia, Henry Chilufya demonstrates a bicycle powered maize extractor at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Laura Kutner, who served in Guatemala, builds a recycle bin out of the same types of bottles used in her bottle wall at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
The photo was taken at North-West Province of South Africa in a school called Goakganya Primary School where Peace Corps had their permagarden training with PCVs & Counterparts. The workshop was held on the 2-3 April 2012 and the picture was taken...
The education abroad office at UNL hosted an open house on Tuesday, February 26th. RPCVs from Palau, China, South Africa, Morocco, Benin, Moldova and Nepal gathered to share their stories. Students, community members and friends all attended as...
I took this photo on my visit to the Jamaica post in October 2010. We went to the eastern most tip of the island to visit with Volunteers who took us to one of the school sites. This picture shows several primary school children that were allowed...
This photo was taken by Everett Lott in October 2009 in a small village outside of Kingston, Jamaica. The smile of this young primary student and his very outgoing personality really illustrated for me how grateful he was for the program that the...
The Courage of Irene Malachi is well known in Vanuatu. Her influence extends to many rural areas where she has been in the vanguard of those seeking a new approach and understanding to HIV-AIDS and its effects.
Irene is now the holder of a quite...
This week, tears of joy were shed by Mrs. Irene Malachi who was first announced the first ever HIV/AIDS victim in the small island country of Vanuatu in 2002 when she was presented an award by the Peace Corps Country Director, Mr. Edwin Stice....
This picture was taken on my recent Desk Trip to Dominica (April 2010). Shown in this picture is Fred, the "Juice Man". World's best juice! His stand is located in Roseau, Dominica (right outside of the Peace Corps office).
This picture was taken on my recent Desk Trip to Grenada (April 2010). Shown in this picture is graffiti on a building outside of the capital, St. George's.
I would say that something started to happen between Adam and I while riding across Guinea in a bush taxi. The car ride back to Conakry was 15 hours and we held hands during the entire trip while we talked about home. We got married 9 months after...