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    • An Honor

    • An Honor
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    • 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
    • Basilan Island Fiesta

    • Basilan Island Fiesta
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    • 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
    • Becoming Queen Mother of Development

    • Becoming Queen Mother of Development
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    • 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
    • Buying Vegetables from Small Girls

    • Buying Vegetables from Small Girls
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    • 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
    • Catapult

    • Catapult

    • Host Family

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

    • Citemene
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    • Villagers burning a firebreak in preparation for citemene, which is the traditional slash and burn agriculture system. The photo was taken in Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia in 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Health Post Almost Done!

    • Health Post Almost Done!
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    • This is a picture of the village Iman (center), my fellow Volunteer, Allyson (left) and myself (right) in front of the health post we were building in rural Guinea. The Imam was my partner in the project and became a very close friend despite our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Homemade Toy

    • Homemade Toy
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    • 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
    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Host Family in Aksukent

    • Host Family

    • 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
    • International Cooking with English Class

    • International Cooking with English Class
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    • Here in my bucataria at the gazda house are some of my talented chefs making a bechamel sauce. It was perfect the first time! There are twelve regular students who cook with me monthly to learn new recipes in English from all parts of the world. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kokpar in the Mud

    • Kokpar in the Mud
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    • 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
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    • This photo shows the celebration of a new tribal paramount chief in Gbarnga, Liberia in December 1969. Note the ceremonial tusk horn.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nana Komla Dihie III

    • Nana Komla Dihie III
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    • 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

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