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    • Namibian High Schoolers at Camp

    • Namibian High Schoolers at Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Girls' education; Teachers and students

    • Grade 11 girls from Rehoboth (Namibia) High School work as a team to transport a tire and all team members across an obstacles without touching the ground. Students were attending a week-long leadership camp at Aus, Namibia. The enrichment camp...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candles of Hope

    • Candles of Hope

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at a World AIDS Day vigil in Lautoka, Fiji on Dec. 1, 2009. Stakeholders in reproductive health organized the event which included personal testimony, a puppet show about prevention, and speakers from each major religious...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sangam Temple Fire Walking

    • Sangam Temple Fire Walking

    • Ceremonies; Religion; Traditional dress

    • I took this photo during an annual Hindu fire walking ceremony in September, 2008 at Sangam Temple in Navua, Fiji. The ritual is an act of self-purification and is part of a vow in which the devotee promises to walk on fire in order to receive...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reunion in Tabaka

    • Reunion in Tabaka

    • Host community friends

    • In 2005, we visited the Ong'esa family, in Tabaka, Kenya. We worked with this family as PCV's, around setting up a stone carvers cooperative, and family planning.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yes We Can

    • Yes We Can

    • Children; Elders

    • The picture was taken by my home village, Tougouri, Burkina Faso. In the picture are my best-friend's mother (therefore MY grandmother) and my friend's son. The little boy is the smiliest and giggliest little boy ever created and his grandmother...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Babushkas

    • Babushkas

    • Host community friends

    • On a cool summer evening in July 2003, a group of local babushkas gossip and catch up on a bench in Kamianets-Podilsky, Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Brother in a Sea of Students

    • Brother in a Sea of Students

    • Teachers and students

    • This is a picture of my brother, Cyrus, on his visit to me in Northern Ghana in 2007. The photo was taken at Dipale Primary School in the village of Dipale, just north of Tamale, the Northern Regional Capital of Ghana. The students had just...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tamai

    • Tamai

    • Elders; Food and meals

    • This is Tamai, one of the older ladies in my village. Saramaccan women work very hard harvesting, cutting, and beating rice, the primary food in a Saramaccan diet. Even women Tamai's age can put an able-bodied Peace Corps volunteer in his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sign Language Class

    • Sign Language Class

    • Teachers and students

    • This was taken in December 2004. One of my secondary projects was teaching American Sign Language to deaf Ukrainians. I am in the middle wearing a plaid shirt. My students ranged in age from five to eighty years old.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Four Generations

    • Four Generations

    • Host families

    • This is a photo of 4 generations taken at Easter--a very special holiday in Ukraine--in 2004. The photo shows my host mother, with her mother, her daughter and her granddaughter.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Don Ernesto

    • Don Ernesto

    • Host families; Children

    • My host family in my village of El Sauce, Guatemala. Don Ernesto, whom I deeply admire and respect, and two of his grandchildren.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At a Naming Ceremony (Koolio)

    • At a Naming Ceremony (Koolio)

    • Ceremonies; Children

    • I took this photo at a naming ceremony (Koolio) in 1981 in Jambanjelly, The Gambia, West Africa. When a child is seven days old he or she is given a name, and the village comes to celebrate the occasion. The mother (with face covered by material)...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing a Meal

    • Sharing a Meal

    • Host community friends; Food and meals

    • Enjoying a delicious meal of couscous and chicken. My wife and I lived upstairs from this wonderful family during our two years in Morocco.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Winter View from Balcony

    • Winter View from Balcony

    • Climate; Housing

    • As someone who has lived in Los Angeles for 20 years, the Ukrainian winters were quite different than anything I had experienced before. This photo was taken in January 2005 from my balcony in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos

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