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- Higinio and Tomas Toast Coffee
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In a project directed at increasing revenues by fully processing the local, high-altitude coffee, Tomas and Higinio toast coffee inside an old building built by the government and mining companies. The Ngäbes have recently protested the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Mouhou and Me Amongst Her Drying Roses
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Mouhou Boussine, my counterpart, and I are sitting amongst her drying roses in the Valley of the Roses in Morocco. As a small business development Volunteer, I helped Mouhou develop the weaving association in the village. The weavers were all... - Volunteer Photos
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- Zahra and Terra weaving in her cave
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As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with weavers in a rural village in Morocco. The hills surrounding our village were filled with cave dwelling nomads. I became very close with one of these families, the Lahcen Eshu family, and I... - Volunteer Photos
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- Zahra at Cave Door
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As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with carpet weavers in developing their organization. I also worked with cave dwelling nomads that lived in the hills surrounding the village. This is Zahra, one of the nomads who is a weaver.... - Volunteer Photos
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- Girls Art Club
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The girls in my village very eagerly embraced the art club I started. Anywhere between 3 and 15 girls would meet regularly in my kitchen to draw, make jewelry, paint, and dye eggs. Here I am with the girls as we paint Amazigh symbols on the wall of... - Volunteer Photos
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- Peaches Drying in the Sun
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I served as a small business development Volunteer in a rural village in Morocco. I worked with the local carpet weaving association and because all of the weavers were agrarian farmers, I spent a lot of time with the women in the fields. Every... - Volunteer Photos
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- Zahra Baking Bread
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As a small business development Volunteer, I helped develop the local weaving association. Zahra was one of my host sisters and one of the most dedicated weavers. I spent a lot of time with her in her house as she baked bread every morning before... - Volunteer Photos
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- Friendship Knows Neither Age nor Color
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This photo is of Peace Corps Volunteer Tracy with one of many village children she befriended. The occasion is the opening of the first ever playground in her town, built with funds from a Peace Corps Partnership Program grant and help from local... - Volunteer Photos
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- My Host Sister Naima
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My host sister Naima is showing us the henna on her hands. Henna is a ground up leaf that is applied to the hand which dyes the skin for several weeks. The local tradition of Amazigh culture is to apply the henna in solid color and to forego the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Approaching Storm's Wall of Sand
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Wall of dust descending on the village of Sangha at the Escarpemnt in Mali. Dust storms usually precede violent thunderstorms in the Sahel. - Volunteer Photos
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- Mouhou and Me
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As a small business development Volunteer in a rural village in Morocco, I helped develop the local weaving association. One of my projects was re-introducing high quality traditional materials through skill building workshops for the artisans. My... - Volunteer Photos
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- Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra
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As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with carpet weavers in developing their organization. I also worked with cave dwelling nomads that lived in the hills surrounding the village. This is Zahra, one of the nomads who is a weaver,... - Volunteer Photos
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- Mural: Peace Corps and the City Joal: Solid Waste Management Project
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The photo is of the mural that was designed and painted on the compost facility that the US Embassy in Senegal funded. There is also another compost facility that the City of Joal in Senegal funded. The Mural depicts the many stages of the solid... - Volunteer Photos
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- Songkran in Nongtakai
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This picture is from the Sorkran Festival in April 2011, which is a water festival in Thailand. This was my host brother. He is throwing dyed water on passersby as his sister wears powder on her face. - Volunteer Photos
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- Thai Girl and Fish
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This is a picture was taken in May 2011 at my house. I have a pond with three different types of fish. One type had babies and another kind of fish was eating them. So, this girl and I separated the baby fish form the large pond so they would not... - Volunteer Photos
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- Game Time
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This is a picture was taken in April 2011 at the farm of my host family in Thailand. This is a photo of a water cooler and a takraw ball. Takraw is a very popular sport in Thailand. - Volunteer Photos
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- Work Outing
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This is a picture was taken in June 2011 on route back to the office. This photo opportunity occurred during a work outing to visit an OTOP project. - Volunteer Photos
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- My Balat
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This is a picture was taken in June 2011 on route back to site. This is a photo of my Balat, Chief Administrator, who is also my counterpart. This is a work event and the entire office is on this bus. Powder is a big part of Thai customs and so... - Volunteer Photos
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- Kyrgyzstan Stroll
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That photo was taken on a walk near a village in Kyrgyzstan. Two Volunteers, Luke and Steve, are walking and sharing a talk on the way to the mountains seen in the distance. Photo taken by friend and fellow Volunteer Sarah Hopkins. - Volunteer Photos
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- Fist Pump
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This photo was taken during the International Holiday African Child celebration at my school in Rwanda on June 16th 2011. Here we are dancing. - Volunteer Photos
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