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    • Health Nutrition Team

    • Health Nutrition Team
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    • At the end of each of our teaching cycles the basic training school would hold a celebration which consisted of a photograph, banquet, and entertainment. We Peace Corps Volunteers are seated with some of our students standing in Kurnool, Andhra...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching Workshop in Eluru

    • Teaching Workshop in Eluru
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    • Our Health Nutrition team taught at a Gram Sevika Basic Training School for young people who would become rural elementary teachers. One month we taught courses in health, nutrition, vegetable gardening, and making of a smokeless chula...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Badjeo Village

    • Badjeo Village
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    • Two days a week I taught basic English skills to a nomadic group along the waterfront in Roxas, Palawan. They moved whenever they needed a new place to catch fish for sale in the town. Thus, they did not have any formal education. The informal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creating Teaching Materials

    • Creating Teaching Materials
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    • My assignment was as a manager of a print shop. We created flanograph pictures to teach women about the natal process and others to teach men about a cooperative project to grow peanuts. I spoke French to the Nigerien and English to the Nigerian,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cordwood

    • Cordwood
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    • The train pulling this load would often have to back up and take multiple runs at the grade to make it out of Tarkwa to the coastal port of Takoradi.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family Gathering

    • Family Gathering

    • Host Family

    • Welcome to my family in Papua New Guinea. My mother and father are standing in the background with all my cousins, grandpa and "Wontoks"sitting. Kinda fun learning about the "thumbs up" sign as one boy is doing but even more fun to have your...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Eighth Grade English Class

    • Eighth Grade English Class
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    • This photo was taken near the end of September, 1998 outside the town of Varshets, Bulgaria. This photo was taken following the first week of school at Ivan Vazov. My students asked me on an impromptu hike to a mountain hut named "White Water"...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mohammed with Clients

    • Mohammed with Clients
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    • Mohammed Essabi (center) with me (right) and clients who were traveling from America. This was taken at the home of the rais of Tamesloht, who was Essabi's first patron. This was the first sale of Essabi's work.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kyeong Ae Won Elders

    • Kyeong Ae Won Elders
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    • I took this photo during the fall of 1980 in my village, Kyeong Ae Won, South Korea. These three gentlemen were patients and residents of the village. Passing time sitting on the front stoop of a home was a common site.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dinner after a Long Walk

    • Dinner after a Long Walk
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    • Here's my friend cooking dinner-- sweet potatoes and yams--, after a long walk and carbo loading for the next day. The next morning we grabbed our sugar cane and headed out on our next full day of walking.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visit with Tribal Dancer

    • Visit with Tribal Dancer
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    • This is the tribal dancer for the Batak tribe in the interior of Palawan. On my weekend visit there, he invited me to come and meet his family in their home before I hiked back to civilization. Even though we did not speak each other's language,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Batak Tribe - Palawan

    • Batak Tribe - Palawan
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    • This photo was taken while on a 12 km hike to visit the Batak Tribe in the interior of Palawan. The tribal chief invited me to have coffee with him and the tribal dancer invited me to stop and talk with him and his family. This is an unusual...
    • Volunteer Photos

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