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    • Everyone Loves Sparklers

    • Everyone Loves Sparklers
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    • This is my landlady Abibata with her two children, Yushogu and Fusina, at our family house. I brought out some sparklers I'd received in a package and they had a blast - although we had to be careful of the thatch roofing. Sparks and dry thatch...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV Education

    • HIV Education
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    • This photo was taken in the northern region of Ghana during a two-week long HIV/AIDS education program. Five health Volunteers and three counterparts traveled down the White Volta River doing outreach and testing in over a dozen villages that are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Geography Made Easy

    • Geography Made Easy
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    • Adams Bunbunke Yao, the health/water sanitation technical trainer, works with students from the northern region of Ghana on a map of Ghana at the school. (July 2010)
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    • Alimatu in the Village

    • Alimatu in the Village
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    • This is Alimatu, the little girl that lives in my family house in the northern region of Ghana. We had painted our faces earlier that morning with fingernail polish. The kids love it and pretended like they were going to a wedding. (April 2011)
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    • Damba at the Damba

    • Damba at the Damba
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    • This is Damba sounding the talking drums during the Damba Festival (for which he was named) in the northern region of Ghana. The men sitting behind are elders and opinion leaders who have joined outside the chief's palace. (February 2010)
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Evening

    • Village Evening
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    • This is a photo of myself (taken by Volunteer Stephanie Lagos, and used with permission) holding Laciba, one of my neighbor's daughters, in a village of in the northern region of Ghana, around December of 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Looking up

    • Looking up
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    • Myself, with a group of children who helped our health/water sanitation Peace Corps trainees, dig a simple pit latrine in a village in the northern region of Ghana. The photo was taken by Connor Botkin (used with permission) in July of 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fire it up!

    • Fire it up!
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    • Volunteers Casimir and Stephanie work with Mohammed and Adam to make their torches to burn for Fire Festival, an event that takes place in the northern region of Ghana. This photo was taken at my house in December of 2010.
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    • Balloons!

    • Balloons!
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    • My neighbor's child, Laciba, and my landlord's little girl, Fusina, playing with balloons at my house in the northern region of Ghana (Christmas Day, 2010).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Macho!

    • Macho!
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    • Volunteers Stephanie and Beth joking around with Abibata and Azaratu after Fire Festival in the northern region of Ghana. (December 2010)
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Typical Afternoon in Monkey River Village

    • Typical Afternoon in Monkey River Village
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    • This was taken on a Sunday afternoon right outside my house on the beach in Belize. I adopted a dog from the streets and the kids ended up loving him just as much as me. We would teach "Leo" tricks and the kids would be in utter shock that dogs...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Amber

    • Amber
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    • This is one of my favorite students, Amber, and myself on a Sunday afternoon on the beach in Belize. Our weekends were spent hanging out on the beach and playing with my dog, Leo. Amber was one of the first children to welcome me lovingly into...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chigüina

    • Chigüina
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    • This photo was taken in a community in Nicaragua during the month of May in 2011. As a maternal and child health Volunteer in El Jícaro, I assisted the doctors that day with collecting HIV tests. We ate lunch at a woman's house, and she had five...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching English

    • Teaching English
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    • This photo was taken in November 2009 at Pandamatenga Primary School in Pandamatenga, Botswana. This was the end of the school year and we wanted to take a photo with the teacher and his standard 2 (equivalent of 1st grade) class, whom I was...
    • Volunteer Photos

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