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    • Anticipation

    • Anticipation

    • Health; Girls' education

    • This photo was taken a few weeks ago at a health fair in Ecuador. My counterpart agency is Plan Internacional, and part of our booth included proper condom use demonstrations. These are students from a local high school that attended the fair,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • One of the Boys

    • One of the Boys

    • Youth; Education; Teachers and students

    • Usually the highlight of my day is hanging out with these kids and their friends, who shine shoes at the center of my town. The problem is they should be in school, and some of them have never gone to school and can't read. I figured I'd be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Luis

    • Luis

    • Host community friends

    • This is one of my favorite people at site, Luis. The picture was taken by another kid his age, who loves using my camera. It was a morning of some mini photography lessons, not that I am qualified to be giving photography lessons. We are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Postcard Project

    • School Postcard Project

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • This is a photo of Volunteer Farfum Ladroma with his primary school students in the Kingdom of Tonga, October 2010. The photo shows the students with postcards from their school postcard project. As of October 2010, the school has received over 350...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan

    • Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan

    • Teachers and students; Camps and clubs; Schools; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in November 2009 shortly after I arrived at my site in Kazakhstan. This was one of the first English Clubs I held in the local Kazakh school. The photo shows myself and the children, and their completed Thanksgiving turkeys...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kadou Festival Bole

    • Kadou Festival Bole

    • Celebrations; Music

    • Kadou Festival celebrate primarily in the western corner of the Northern Region of Ghana as well as the bordering area in Cote d'Ivoure by Muslims to mark the coming end of Ramadan which occurs three days later. Originally done as a courting...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The English Teacher

    • The English Teacher

    • Education; Schools; Teachers and students

    • This photo was take on Teacher's Day 2010 in Mongolia, where students show their appreciation to their teachers through song and by presenting small gifts.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pato Pato Gansa

    • Pato Pato Gansa

    • Education; Teachers and students; Games

    • This photo shows education Volunteers in the Philippeans playing the game Pato Pato Gansa or Duck Duck Goose with children at an extension school.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Happy Unbirthday

    • Happy Unbirthday

    • Celebrations; Training groups

    • PCTs in my training cluster wanted to celebrate everyone's birthday together, but knowing we would not be able to attend everyone's real birthday, we celebrated one "unbirthday" each week of PST.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Back Door View

    • My Back Door View

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Terrain

    • This photo was taken during PST (August 16th, 2010) from the back door of my home stay on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. I took it after a brief rain, just before the sun was going down.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Halloween Nicaragua-style

    • Halloween Nicaragua-style

    • Celebrations; Host community

    • With a rural youth group we dressed up for Halloween. The kids made homemade costumes and we watched "Monsters Inc." and bobbed for apples. Here I am with the youth in their costumes. It was their first Halloween, but I'm sure we will celebrate...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Huntin' for Iguanas

    • Huntin' for Iguanas

    • Wildlife

    • This picture was taken in the beginning of '2010 at a laguna at the foot of Momotombo Volcano in Nicaragua. A group of us went hunting with slingshots for Iguanas, and this was my catch of the day! Normally these iguanas are sold on the side of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Horno Casero

    • Horno Casero

    • Children; Cooking; Camps and clubs

    • I teach three cooking classes a week with various women´s groups, and this time we made an home-made oven (horno casero) to cook stuffed peppers. This boy lives at the house in which we were cooking and usually loves to get involved with our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cooling Off

    • Cooling Off

    • Children; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation

    • While building wells in a rural community in the hottest months of the year (April), I stumbled upon this little guy trying to cool off inside a chamber pot.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fun with Balloons

    • Fun with Balloons

    • Children

    • This photo was taken in my backyard with my two favorite neighbors- Ging and Sia Mai. Three Peace Corps staff members had visited me the week before and given out some balloons. It made these little girls' day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • ´´Paseando´´

    • ´´Paseando´´

    • Children

    • I go to this house every week to teach English as well as teach a cooking class. While the food was cooking, we went outside and the kids were showing me the bicyce cart their dad uses to sell their goods at the market. They love having their photo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2010

    • World AIDS Day 2010

    • Celebrations; HIV/AIDS

    • This was a World AIDS Day March that I organized along with New Life Organization in Grenville, Grenada. We distributed information about HIV and AIDS, a list of places that provide free testing and counseling, and red awareness ribbons.
    • Volunteer Photos

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