My Associate Peace Corps Director (APCD) suggested me to do this project with my students. It was a huge success and the students and faculty loved the project.
This photo was taken on May 21, 2010 in East Java, Indonesia during Pre-Service Training. We did the world map project in the village community center. The little kids in the village loved to help paint!
This photo shows Peace Corps Volunteer Thomas, with the principal of Athiru Gaiti Sec School (William Kiathia) along with several students in front of the completed world map. The students worked with Thomas over a period of 2 months to finish the...
Samabogo, Mali taken on 10/4/2009. This is my host mom, Worokia, at my village going away party. I bought 50 pounds of beans and invited my friends and family to eat and dance. I admit we are all bean eaters.
I am doing practice writing classes for the students before the Write On contest, which will be February 12th at our high school in the Philippines. They write in the library. When this picture was taken there were 11 students; we are up to 14 and...
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...
I took this photo in December 2010 in Cambodia. The photo shows my ya-ee (Khmer language for grandmother) fanning herself on another hot Cambodian day.
Yai Gong (Thai grandmother) in my host family seems pleased with the color on her fingertips. In the first month on site i was often with her as the family went out to pick chili. She liked me, although I knew she couldn't quite figure out who I...
Kinshasa, Zaire/Congo at Peace Corps headquarters. We were provided with new Yamaha 125 motorcycles, as fisheries Volunteers and we did cover a large area which required a bike. Later, I broke my ankle.
This was taken in 2011 (post-service) while visiting the Emberá community Ella Drua in Colón, Panama. Yaneth was weaving a traditional Emberá basket while her daughter, Vianca, and my son, Adrián, played on the floor.
Peace Corps Volunteer Paul Lux yawns at an early morning meeting during the one-year in-country conference of Honduras Group 13 at La Ceiba, Honduras. May, 1970.
I took this photo February, 2012 in Carpuela (Valle de Chota) Imbabura, Ecuador. It depicts artist Alicia Villaba's view of the yearning and longing for a better education for the young Afro-Ecuadorians in her community. This power piece is made...
For the past 9 months, I have been working with a group of Grannys (in South Africa they are known as Gogos) to form a health education group. Often the ones left to cook, clean, and care for young babies while their own children go to cities to...
I took this photo in Naas, South Africa on March 23, 2011. The woman pictured is the grandmother or Gogo in siSwati of a client that I work with. Gogos have frequently become the primary care givers in a country where many children are orphaned as...