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    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Celebrations; Games

    • Kazakh horsemen participate in a game of Kokpar during the Nauryz celebration to mark the beginning of Spring. Two teams attempt to take possession of a headless goat carcass and drop it in a goal on their side of the field. The field was muddy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Music

    • Making Music

    • Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This photo shows the celebration of a new tribal paramount chief in Gbarnga, Liberia in December 1969. Note the ceremonial tusk horn.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Singing for Our Supper

    • Singing for Our Supper

    • Music; Celebrations

    • Singing in the photo are Dick Lundgren, Dee Maning, Rich Holmes, Neil Dupree, Joyce Emery, and Roger Lavallee. One was usually asked to perform at functions. This was on our visit to established volunteers in the Cotobato area of Mindano in 1965.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Buying Vegetables from Small Girls

    • Buying Vegetables from Small Girls

    • Children; Markets; Food and meals

    • This is a photo taken in Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana. It was market day which becomes busy as people are walking the streets selling or buying goods and produce. The volunteer, Dace, is buying vegetables from small girls who were carrying...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Becoming Queen Mother of Development

    • Becoming Queen Mother of Development

    • Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This is a photo taken in January of 2009. The community of Likpe Todome in the Volta Region of Ghana is bestowing an honor upon their Peace Corps volunteer, Leanne Polachek. They are making her the honorary Likpe Todome Queen Mother of Development.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nana Komla Dihie III

    • Nana Komla Dihie III

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; Elders

    • This is a photo of Nana Komla Dihie III, the chief of Likpe Todome and Krontihene of the Likpe traditional area in the Volta Region of Ghana. Nana is presiding over a groundbreaking ceremony as part of a community-based tourism development project....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Basilan Island Fiesta

    • Basilan Island Fiesta

    • Celebrations; Host community friends

    • Ebbie, the young woman in the plaid skirt, worked and stayed with us in Zamboanga City. For pay, we paid her school tuition, uniform and book fees. This was a fiesta on Basilan Island at her family's home on a coconut plantation.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Homemade Toy

    • Homemade Toy

    • Children; Games

    • I used to pass children all the time on my way to work. This young boy always impressed me with his imagination and inventive mind. Kids don't have a lot of toys in rural Guinea, so they make them!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • An Honor

    • An Honor

    • Teachers and students

    • Receiving a hand-made country cloth outfit from student John in May, 1969, at Matilda Newport Junior High School in Monrovia, Liberia. He is first giving me the hat.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Outfit Complete

    • Outfit Complete

    • Teachers and students; Traditional dress

    • Volunteer Tom Vinson in the complete country cloth chief's outfit, a gift from students at Matilda Newport Junior High School, Monrovia in May, 1969. Pictured from left are Bea, John, Valerie, and Tom Vinson. The robe was a great honor to receive.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Steps to Likpe Todome Caves and Waterfall

    • Steps to Likpe Todome Caves and Waterfall

    • Host community friends; Ecotourism

    • This is a picture taken in July of 2008. The Peace Corps volunteer, Leanne Polachek, poses with members of the Likpe Todome community. The community members are creating steps to their ancestral caves and waterfall which are part of a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Food and meals; Host families

    • This photo shows my Uzbek host family, with whom I lived for all of my two years at site. In parts of Southern Kazakhstan there are many Uzbeks, who lived there long before the Soviets drew the current borders. From left to right: me, host mom,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Catapult

    • Catapult

    • Children; Food and meals

    • Village kids use catapults to shoot dried balls made of mud at unsuspecting birds. Rarely are they successful.
    • Volunteer Photos

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