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...
Part of our job was to go to the schools of the teachers we were training on horseback or by motorcycle, and observe our teachers as they taught. This was one class on one day in 1967.
Several of my students in the village of Tougouri, Burkina Faso are "hanging out" in front of their classroom - no electricity and no water. It is an amazing feat that there are three girls in the picture as only about 10% of my students were...
One of two school buildings that housed grades 1-7. The school eventually went to ninth grade. I taught a class of 55 students in grades 5 and 6. The school year was from March to the first of December. Gbarnga, Liberia, 1968.
Liberia XIII was the first in-country training program in Liberia. After a two week staging process in Philadelphia our group flew directly to Liberia. We were all educators. Our training consisted of teaching at a vacation school conducted at...
During a break from a Peace Corps meeting in Iringa, Tanzania, a fellow Volunteer took the opportunity to teach a few of the local kids the "fist bump".
I took this photo in 2001, while working with a community member, and good friend, Miguel. He works in the forestry and cattle industries in Eastern Honduras.
All travel in upcountry Liberia was by taxi or “money bus”. There was no schedule.
When a taxi driver got a full complement of at least 6 passengers he would leave. The Peugeot station wagon was the car of choice. The “money bus”...
After completing training in Rabat, it was time to travel to "site", home for the next two years. This highway led the bus over the Atlas Mountains to Errachidia, Morocco.