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    • 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
    • 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
    • Campesina with Water Jug

    • Campesina with Water Jug

    • Water and sanitation

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • La Vega Carnaval, 2011

    • La Vega Carnaval, 2011

    • Celebrations

    • 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;...
    • 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
    • The Ovoo Offering

    • The Ovoo Offering

    • Religion

    • 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 Photos
    • Bolivia's Well

    • Bolivia's Well
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    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • First Time on the Computer

    • First Time on the Computer

    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Broken Bridges

    • Broken Bridges
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    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kids in Kruger

    • Kids in Kruger

    • Teachers and students; Environment

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Time With Computers

    • First Time With Computers

    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Schools in Kruger National Park

    • Schools in Kruger National Park

    • Teachers and students; Environment

    • 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...
    • 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
    • Profile of María

    • Profile of María

    • Elders

    • 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)....
    • Volunteer Photos

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