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    • "Mangi" Playing

    • "Mangi" Playing
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    • I visited a village near my school and found some wonderful kids. They wanted me to stay but I needed more than just sugar cane and sweet potatoes for dinner. Though they were fun they also showed signs of malnourishment.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Day in the Life

    • A Day in the Life
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    • My coworkers insisted that I keep the custom of having my photo taken in a local photo shop. So here I am circa 1973. The top is Tuareg clothing. I sewed the skirt by hand!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Funeral Offering to the Widow

    • A Funeral Offering to the Widow
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    • As a school we walked to this widow's house to give her a live pig, bags of rice, bags of fruit, and our money donation (from the faculty). The widow was the wife of a respected member of the school board. She in return gave all the visitors a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Traveler on the Road to Haik

    • A Traveler on the Road to Haik
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    • The roads leading into Haik, Ethiopia were made of dirt and rock. The rains would come and often wash them away. The winds would often blow them away. Yet the views were spectacular and the people traveling on them were charming and warm. ...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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