I am teaching nutrition - breastfeeding and weaning - to women and children in Bossangoa, Central African Rep., 1981, speaking in the Gbeya language. These lessons were done twice weekly.
These are two of the children that lived in the house next to mine in Zambia. It was taken a year and a half ago, just before I being pulled from site.
Host families; Traditional dress; Secondary projects; Celebrations
This photo was taken in April of 2010 in the Tsa'chila village of El Poste, Ecuador. Here, I am dressed in traditional Tsa'chila attire with my host family in front of a garden we planted together. The garden sits between two new tourist huts we...
I taught in a Kindergarten for about half of my service. This was my Kindergarten Class and co-teacher. We only a had a few children, but all of them were so active and really keen on learning English. It was such a fun group. This was our class...
This picture was taken out in the bushland on the island of 'Eua, in Tonga. Everyday, men go to the bush and farm the land to grow crops to feed thier families. This is Maka. He spends most days in the bush to feed his children and wife. He is...
Women from a small village on the island of 'Eua spend the day painting tapa cloth. These cloths can be up to 50 feet long and are made from the bark of a tree. The cloths, once finished are given as gifts at many events, such as weddings,...
Fisheries Volunteers in Zaire/Congo in 1980 upon arriving in country, took a quick tour of internal regions of the country in order to visit other Volunteers, farmers and fish ponds. The children in the villages always were smiling.
Studying and reading while at Lake Kivu, Bukavu Zaire/Congo. With fellow fisheries Volunteers, we constructed ponds for tilapia. Ted has his arm up blocking his face.
Fisheries Volunteers tour internal regions of the Congo, before language training. Here, we are visiting farmers, other Volunteers and villages for a short update, and then we were scheduled to start language training in Bukavu/Lake Kivu in eastern...
Fellow Fisheries Volunteer visiting the Mbuji-Mayi area before language training. Immediately after arriving in-country, we had a brief tour of fish ponds/farmers/villages. Composte was key to success with fisheries.
Howard Clemens at University of Oklahoma trained a group of us and this picture shows two of us during language training in Bukuavu, Zaire/Congo, with Lake Kivu.
Kinshasa, Zaire/Congo at Peace Corps headquarters. We were provided with new Yamaha 125 motorcycles, as fisheries Volunteers and we did cover a large area which required a bike. Later, I broke my ankle.
Pre-service training (PST); Peace Corps Headquarters
Fellow Fisheries Volunteer at Peace Corps Headquarters in Kinshasa. We landed in Kinshasa and learned some basic details before leaving for a brief tour of fish ponds/villages and farmers in-country.
I and other fisheries Volunteers were able to view Silver back Mountain Gorillas at Virunga National Park after language training and before starting our volunteer projects.