During my service, I played many sports and games with the youth of Ben Guerir, including baseball, American football, soccer, and frisbee. This photo captures our game of baseball adapted to work within the constraints of the cement field behind...
This photo was taken in Namibia at the after school program Kayec during our pre-service training for health group 33. We taught the kids how to play the American game of baseball. This boy was trying on a baseball helmet for safety.
This photo was taken during a HIV/AIDS community awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco. Pictured are the Volunteer and three local participants in the campaign. It was the first HIV/AIDS awareness activity of many that we accomplished during...
I took this photo in the campo near the town of La Cruz, Narino, Colombia in 1966. Until we constructed a modest waterline down from the mountains, women would have to go down 300' of steep trails to the Rio Mayo to fetch water.
This photo was taken during Carnaval in La Vega, Republica Dominicana during the last Sunday of February, 2011. Carnaval is a major holiday throughout Central and South America and is celebrated in a unique fashion within the Dominican Republic;...
This photo was taken in January 2011 in Honduras in a small convenience store where Ashley Bass (Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer) is playing with two young boys - Janier Aaron and Marvin Maradiaga - who will be receiving club foot...
I took this photo in early June 2010 in the countryside of Tuv province. The driver stopped briefly when we were en route to our training site in Mongolia. It depicts my good friend and fellow Volunteer (Mongolia 2010-12), Alexandria picking up...
Volunteer Anna worked with the rural communities in the region of La Paz, Bolivia. This photo epitomizes Anna's notoriously positive spirit and the joyous demeanor she held with the host community. The building of a community well was just one of...
I took this photo while site seeing across Cherinihiv, Ukraine and came across this bridge that had locks in formed into the shape of a heart. I learned from the locals that when you fall in love you take your significant other to the bridge lock...
We received 29 computers from a donor in Australia for the computer lab at one of our primary schools. Woody got a few of them set up in time to have an “impromptu” opening of the new computer lab after school just to allow the kids to check...
Recent flooding from heavy rain washed away the bridge that connects the two sides of our village. Making it difficult for Woody and I to get to 2 of our 3 schools. We have to cross the river in order to get to two of our schools on the B-side of...
A local game lodge that is part of the Beyond Foundation and focuses on “ecotourism” invited representatives from all three of our schools to attend a conservation lesson and game drive. Several teachers, principals, and students attended the...
I took this photo on January 12, 2010, one month after arriving at site. I started teaching a one-hour long English class everyday during working hours, splitting the group into two sections. Each group met twice a week for a total of 2 hours per...
We received 29 computers from a donor in Australia for the computer lab at one of our primary schools. Woody got a few of them set up in time to have an “impromptu” opening of the new computer lab after school just to allow the kids to check...
A local game lodge that is part of the Beyond Foundation and focuses on “ecotourism” invited representatives from all three of our schools to attend a conservation lesson and game drive. Several teachers, principals, and students attended the...
The Fulani, or Peuhl, live in villlages and farms of northern and Central Togo. These young women are sedentary, have huts, grow crops, and could potentially attend school whereas other Fulani are completely nomadic. They are holding twin dolls....
This photograph was shot in Honduras during a nutrition and healthy cooking class for mothers in June of 2011. María is a Lenca women, one of the indigenous populations of Honduras famous for their brightly colored pañuelos (head scarves)....