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    • Teaching English

    • Teaching English

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations; Schools; Secondary projects

    • 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
    • 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
    • The First Annual NovoFest

    • The First Annual NovoFest

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations; Music

    • This photo was taken on September 27, 2008 in Koleshino, Macedonia at the First Annual NovoFest. The local municipality of Novo Selo wished to develop their tourist industry during my Peace Corps assignment in their local economic development...
    • 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
    • Typical Afternoon in Monkey River Village

    • Typical Afternoon in Monkey River Village

    • Animals; Host community friends

    • 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
    • Village Evening

    • Village Evening

    • Children

    • 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
    • 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
    • Water Delivery

    • Water Delivery

    • Children; water and sanitation; Transportation

    • Water came from shallow wells in the creekbed. My neighbors delivered two jugs a week - about 10 gallons. This is my weekly delivery of water.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where the Senorita Comes From

    • Where the Senorita Comes From

    • World map project; Youth; Education

    • The children spent a lot of time in my house, so I kept crayons and paper around. When they asked me about where I came from, I told them I had lived near Mount St. Helens, which had erupted a few years earlier. This is one of my neighbors and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Zambian Boy

    • Young Zambian Boy

    • Children

    • This photo was taken in September 2010 during our celebration of induction into Peace Corps Zambia. I was trying to take photos of the dancers behind this boy, but the constant gazing of his eyes drew my lens to focus on him. My favorite part of...
    • Volunteer Photos

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