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    • Locks of Love

    • Locks of Love

    • Statues and monuments

    • 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...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Club Foot Medical Brigade in Honduras

    • Club Foot Medical Brigade in Honduras

    • Health

    • 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...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Baseball in Morocco

    • Baseball in Morocco
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    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • Safety First

    • Safety First

    • Sports; Children

    • 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.
    • 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
    • Oxen Carts and Bus Wheels

    • Oxen Carts and Bus Wheels

    • Transportation

    • Oxen carts are still widely used in Honduras to transport Leña (firewood) for people to use in their fogons, or traditional stoves. The bus tires show the resourcefulness and ingenuity of Hondurans: through the appropriation of various abandoned...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Down Time

    • Down Time

    • Sports

    • Soccer is almost as sacred to life as religion in Honduras. If there are five minutes to spare, someone will always manage to find a ball, and a pickup game of soccer will commence. This idea is not lost on Peace Corps Volunteers, and we quickly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fulani Young Women Holding Their Twin Dolls

    • Fulani Young Women Holding Their Twin Dolls

    • Maternal and child health

    • 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....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tiny Market of Beignets and Tchouk Beer

    • Tiny Market of Beignets and Tchouk Beer

    • Markets; Food and meals

    • This is a tiny market on Wednesday afternoon in Affem Kabye. The women make beignets and beer to sell to the men after they come home from the fields. Women also drink the locally brewed millet beer. This market is so small that women do not even...
    • Volunteer Photos

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