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    • Cora at Home

    • Cora at Home

    • Architecture; Host community friends

    • My dear friend, Cora, in front of her newly-updated home in El Paragua, La Republica Dominicana. The kitchen is the new addition on the left. Previously, her "kitchen" had consisted of a fire pit in the middle of the front room of her house. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Plowing

    • Plowing

    • Animals; Transportation

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in June 2010. I am helping plow the field for our Farmer's Field School. The man pushing the plow is Sai'du Haruna and the girl is his daughter Aisha Sai'du. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Manuela Condori shearing her sheep

    • Manuela Condori shearing her sheep

    • animals; host community friends

    • The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carreras de Caballo

    • Carreras de Caballo

    • Animals; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken September 2006, for the patron saint festivals of San Miguel in the community of San Miguel Ingenio, Metapan, Santa Ana, El Salvador. There is a Catholic church in the background, which is the host of the festivities. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tiky's Birthday Party

    • Tiky's Birthday Party

    • Animals; Celebrations

    • This is a photo of Tiky, my dog, with the children of Zacapa, Guatemala on his birthday in November 2002. Tiky and I had been living in Zacapa for almost nine months. After biting a child who had come into our backyard while I was away, Tiky had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gazing Red Colobus Monkey

    • Gazing Red Colobus Monkey

    • Animals

    • While walking in Jozani Forest,Zanzibar in April 2011, I was able to capture many photos of these Old World monkeys, yet this was the only one who did not seem frightened as I approached.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Snake Kill

    • Snake Kill

    • Animals

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Jerry Perkins, left, checks out a dead snake killed near the stick hut where he lived. With him are residents of the agrarian reform colony Los Angeles, where Perkins served as "assessor tecnico" in 1971.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Good Harvest for Adding Income to the Family

    • A Good Harvest for Adding Income to the Family

    • Agriculture; Host Community; HIV/AIDS

    • This farmer was taught how to build a fish and raise tilapia by Elizabeth as part of the Peace Corps' Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project. Here he has taken some of his harvest to the town of Isoka, Zambia to sell, tying one kilogram (kg) of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Jose Village Pepper Farmers

    • San Jose Village Pepper Farmers

    • Agriculture; Host Community

    • I took this photo at the end of a long day of harvesting and preparing the first crop of habenaro peppers. The peppers are in and on the two vehicles parked behind the villagers packed in reused mesh onion bags. The peppers had been the project...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • agriculture; fishing

    • For the Inland Fisheries Program in Sierra Leone, training took place at Makali Fish Station. A site was selected by the earlier group of fisheries volunteers and a pond was built by those volunteers and trainees and local residents of the country.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Growing Trees for Fish Food

    • Growing Trees for Fish Food

    • agriculture; environment

    • Volunteers teach farmers how to grow trees with high nitrogen leaves which can be used to fertilize fish ponds. Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project, Northern Province, Zambia, Sept. 2001.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Raising Chickens

    • Raising Chickens

    • agriculture; animals

    • I am checking on our young chickens as part of our in-country training in the summer of 1966. We built the coops and raised the chickens from chicks.
    • Volunteer Photos

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