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    • Amber

    • Amber

    • Children

    • 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
    • Picnic Song

    • Picnic Song

    • Music; Celebrations; Food and meals

    • Darkhan-Uul countryside, Mongolia. Mongolians friends on a picnic, singing and drinking into the evening as they wait for the freshly slaughtered sheep to boil. June, 2009
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mother Tree

    • Mother Tree

    • Religion

    • The blind mother of one of my counter parts prays at the base of the sacred mother tree. Buddo-Shamanist Mongolian believers visit the holy tree, tie blue prayer scarves around the tree's branches, sprinkle dairy products on the ground and pray to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sacred Stones

    • Sacred Stones

    • Religion

    • The Mongolian skyline is peppered with round piles of stones called owoos, which serve as spiritual pilars. When you encounter an owoo, the respectful thing to do is bring a few pebbles from the bottom of the mountian, walk about the owoo three...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Day 2001

    • Peace Corps Day 2001

    • Sports; Celebrations

    • Volunteer Jay Percell selects volunteers to play a baseball game during 2001 Peace Corps day festivities on the island of St. Lucia, West Indies. Although the St. Lucian children are more familiar with cricket, they were very excited to learn and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waka Waka South Africa

    • Waka Waka South Africa

    • Sports; Children; Music

    • Dancing in the village... Our host brothers and some other local boys excited to get their photo taken. After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) was hugely popular song in South Africa.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Math Lesson

    • The Math Lesson

    • Teachers and students

    • Taking a break from sorting library books, Woody stops to give a math lesson. “A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Computer Lesson

    • The Computer Lesson

    • Teachers and students; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

    • Kids watch intensely as Woody demonstrates the typing program during the opening of the new computer lab at one of our primary schools.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Beauty Pageant

    • Beauty Pageant

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • A Mongolian woman, wearing a traditional Mongolian headdress, participates in the Darkhan Nursing College's beauty pageant.
    • Volunteer Photos

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