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    • Baseball

    • Baseball

    • Sports

    • The only place to play baseball was a cow pasture a couple of miles away from the village. The community is on the waters edge and hills rise from all sides. It takes about an hour walking through the jungle or in a canoe through the mangroves (if...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Canoe

    • Canoe

    • Transportation; Sports

    • While there was almost no flat space large enough to play sports inside the community because of the hill rose from the water, a short canoe ride through the mangroves and up a river brought us to a cow pasture, which was large and flat enough to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Last Day!

    • Last Day!

    • Children; Celebrations

    • Two Moldovan boys walking to their last day of school for the year with flowers for their teachers.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Our Remote Internet Cafe

    • Our Remote Internet Cafe

    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

    • While serving in Peace Corps with my husband, Ron, we have great difficulty connecting to the internet because of the mountainous terrain. We are serving in a remote and very rural community in Jamaica, nestled near the Blue Mountain Peak. If and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Opening a New World

    • Opening a New World

    • Libraries; Youth

    • There were no book stores in Turkmenistan, only warehouses of textbooks. The culture of reading had left with the fall of the Soviet Union, but the desire to learn about a greater world and see images of life beyond their borders brought a full...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Indigenous Youth at Carnival

    • Indigenous Youth at Carnival

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations; Dance

    • In this photo young indigenous men from the high school where I worked are seen dancing together. If you look in the center of the circle you can see several thermoses filled with "chicha," a corn-based, alcoholic beverage which is made during the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls Empowerment Summer Camp

    • Girls Empowerment Summer Camp

    • Camps and clubs; HIV/AIDS

    • In this photo is Volunteer Julia during our collaborative Girls Empowerment HIV Awareness Summer Camp. Julie is centered around a number of the girls during one of our community building exercises.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tofu Making

    • Tofu Making

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • I took this photo of a fellow Volunteer, Julie, helping her counterpart, Suzi (shown), demonstrate a tofu making class to the women at an orphanage in my village of Baham, Cameroon. In the photo, Julie and Suzi are straining the soy milk before...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • HIV/AIDS; Media coverage

    • This photo was taken during the West Regional Project in Bafoussam, Cameroon on World AIDS Day 2010- an event working with 22 Peer Educators. Volunteers and host country nationals met in the regional capital and paraded, passed out condoms (male...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching the Biology of HIV

    • Teaching the Biology of HIV

    • Teachers and students; HIV/AIDS

    • In this photo is Volunteer Liz Anderson teaching a class of 30 girls a session on the biology and transmission of HIV during a Girls Empowerment HIV Awareness Summer Camp in Baham, Cameroon, August 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mayan Ruins

    • Mayan Ruins

    • Architecture

    • This is a picture i took during training in Guatemala, where there are still standing structures of ruins from the last capital city for the Mayans from 1463.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vinegarville

    • Vinegarville

    • Business development; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture

    • This is a picture of some of the 25 women who are learning to to make vinegar, wine vinegar, and herb-infused vinegar. The man in the picture is the agricultural agent who is teaching them. They come every week from all over the valley. They hope...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Boys Collecting Recycable Products

    • Boys Collecting Recycable Products

    • Children

    • Nearly everyday, these boys (8-10 years old) pass in front of my house in Honduras asking for my plastic bottles and aluminum cans. The pain of living from Lempira to Lempira (the local currency) has long been accepted as normal.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Universal Symbol

    • Universal Symbol

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This was taken in October 2010 after the inauguration of 8 water faucets for my school, La Felicidad, in Guatemala. Pictured here are me and two students after the inauguration.
    • Volunteer Photos

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