In this photo, taken in a schoolyard in Balibar, East Timor (August 2005), a group of local boys are playing ultimate frisbee, which I and a few other trainees taught them. It was my project to teach then the game, to translate the rules into...
In early June 2009, a worker uses a chainsaw to cut logs to length for wood stoves. In certain regions of the country, Albanian families order several cubic meters of wood in the summer to be shortened, split, and dry so they will have enough wood...
This photo was taken in September, 2005 in Same, East Timor. My wife and I and a Portuguese language teacher helped train a group of girls who asked us for their help to get a girls soccer team together. This was an important project because the...
On Feb. 15, 2010, Volunteer Patricia Hong and her counterpart Shpresa pose with a class of second graders at the Puka "Migjeni" 9-year school to show off their demonstration-sized floss. Students learned about dental hygiene, tooth anatomy, and...
In this photo, taken September, 2005, local children (in Balibar, East Timor) are doing the limbo. Our training group taught them the game and how to beat a pinata at the end of training. There was also a mixture of their food and ours, a...
On Sept. 24, 2009, two fifth graders at a 9-year school in Fushe Arres show off their clean hands after an interactive classroom activity on proper handwashing techniques. Lessons were coupled with information on the H1N1 virus to encourage a...
This photo was taken in August or September 2005, during TL 5's training in Balibar, East Timor. I (the trainee on the left) and a fellow trainee spent time teaching the local boys how to play ultimate frisbee in the schoolyard after our training...