Farmer Conrado planted a border row of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) along the edge of his field. The tree is two years old in the photo. Isabela province, the Philippines, 1988
Facial study of a Campesina holding a towel to her face in Concepción, Honduras. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. May, 1969.
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
My colleague, Nabila, facilitated a meeting of the women in a mountain village to discuss and prioritize their needs. Here they are doing pairwise ranking. This is part of the training program I helped the High Atlas Foundation to develop for rural...
My time as a Peace Corps Volunteer was spent on a very tiny, very remote island in the South Pacific, in Tonga. The island, Ha'afeva, is about a mile and a half long, and one mile wide. Because it's so small and so remote, most of the food on the...
Pictured are Paul Arfin, a Peace Corps Volunteer Leader aside his Willys Jeep in the Colombian Andes, on his way from San Joaquin to Onzaga, Colombia, 1964
Taken in the dirt field that I used as a shortcut on my walk to work at Hassan II University everyday. These are my neighbors, their kids and their shantytown homes. Taken 11/6/2010.
Pictured are Sargent Shriver (l), the first Peace Corps Director, and Paul Arfin (Colombia 1963-1965) in Washington DC to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Peace Corps
Women in Tiguibery, Guinea, fish with their children in tow. After catching the tiny fish, the women gracefully placed their catch in the calabash bowls balanced on their heads. The dry season on the Niger River also allows locals to do their...
Peace Corps Volunteer Paul Lux yawns at an early morning meeting during the one-year in-country conference of Honduras Group 13 at La Ceiba, Honduras. May, 1970.