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    • Take Me Out To The Ball Game

    • Take Me Out To The Ball Game

    • Sports; Children

    • This photo was taken during training for health group 33 in Namibia, at an organization named Kayec. This is an after school program that we visited during training and we were teaching the learners how to play baseball. The young girls were my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Goal!

    • Goal!

    • Sports; Children

    • This is a photo of Tomarjay & myself during an afternoon football game. At the time, Tomarjay was a grade 6 student at the primary school. He and I traveled with out school team to the neighboring village to watch the boys football match. Here,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Malnutrition Screening

    • Malnutrition Screening

    • Children

    • This photo was taken in February 2011 in a village in the eastern Adamawa region of Cameroon. I was "en brousse" with my host institution--the International Medical Corps--and we were in the middle of malnutrition screenings. The girl in this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Project Kids

    • Project Kids

    • Children

    • These are three young girls from my village. Tamia, Tihara, & Tatiyana spend many afternoons just outside my front gate. They can be found playing games, racing each other, and gently harassing anyone passing by. I was attempting to take a photo of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candlelight Memorial in Morocco

    • Candlelight Memorial in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo of the Candlelight Memorial for victims of HIV/AIDS that we completed during my service. It has been an annual event in the community each year since. Pictured are local participants in the event.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Basketball in Morocco

    • Basketball in Morocco

    • Sports; Small Project Assistance (SPA)

    • This is a picture of the Volunteer playing basketball with local youth behind the youth center. The hoops were renovated with funding from a Peace Corps/USAID SPA grant.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The School Garden

    • The School Garden

    • Secondary projects; Children; Agriculture; Environment

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in the village of Las Palmeras outside of the city of Rivas. I worked with this group of children ages 5-10 at their school to create a tree nursery and organic garden. This project ultimately fulfilled the goal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The African Girl

    • The African Girl

    • Host community friends

    • This picture shows my 11-year old neighbor sitting on top of the school's nearby water tank, resting after manually drawing 80-liters of water for her family. The red colors of the sun ignite the horizon behind her and make her physical features...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Books For Cameroon

    • Books For Cameroon

    • Libraries

    • Cameroonians helping us unload a 40-foot container worth of books from Books For Africa as part of the greater Books For Cameroon project that established over 30 libraries across 5 regions of Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saturday Exam Review

    • Saturday Exam Review

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo is of my Form IV Physics students my last year of teaching in a small mountain village in Mbinga, Tanzania. They came on a Saturday in order to cram in as much study time as possible before their national exams. I spent all my extra time...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pinata Day at Vaipu'a Primary

    • Pinata Day at Vaipu'a Primary

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken the day pinatas were introduced to the students at Vaipu’a & Fogasavaii Primary School. The year 7 & 8 students had blown up the balloons, learned to make glue from recycled paper and water and pasted the layers. After they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV/AIDS Campaign in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS Campaign in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo documents work that went into the first HIV/AIDS campaign we undertook during my service. Pictured are the Volunteer and several local community and association members creating the ribbons that we gave to a local group of school...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Handwashing Games

    • Handwashing Games

    • Water and sanitation; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken on October 15, 2009, during Global Handwashing Day activities with kids at a rural elementary school in Peru. Water and Sanitation Volunteer Matt Inbusch is explaining a hygiene game in which glitter is used to represent germs...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • American School Visits Ben Guerir

    • American School Visits Ben Guerir

    • Art

    • This photo was taken during a U.S. school group's visit to Ben Guerir. During the visit, the group of young people from Ben Guerir and young people from America talked, played games, and shared lunch at the house of a local youth center member. ...
    • Volunteer Photos

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