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    • Ah Jawad!

    • Ah Jawad!
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    • Taken during spring camp in Morocco, this is Peace Corps Voulunteer Jeff (Jawad), with one of our best English students who insisted we call him "Fat Tony."
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Condom Demo

    • Condom Demo
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    • I took this photo of Annette and Christy giving a condom demonstration during a Coaching for Hope workshop in Ouagadougou. 10 Volunteers brought 2 counterparts each to this July 2011 training to learn how to incorporate soccer drills into HIV/AIDS...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Eyes and smiles

    • Eyes and smiles
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    • Our grade 2 students were en route to the annual lenten retreat (March 16, 2011). This was taken during the process of being piled up on the bus.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family Meet Family

    • Family Meet Family
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    • Here is a picture of my host family in my village in Bapla, Burkina Faso looking at photos sent by my family back home. This was taken in front of my house under my shade structure in April of 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Field Labor

    • Field Labor
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    • Volunteer Isabel Hemby and host brother Aube Ait Hammou take a ride on their mule into the fields to do some work. In small rural villages of Morocco the field work is still done by hand and a mule is essential.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fist Pump

    • 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
    • Friendship Knows Neither Age nor Color

    • 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
    • Game Time

    • 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
    • Gara Gum Desert

    • Gara Gum Desert
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    • This is a picture taken of my host family on the edge of the Gara Gum desert in Bolshevik, Turkmenistan. The family took me out to see the desert and we played soccer on the dunes.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls Art Club

    • 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
    • Higinio and Tomas Toast Coffee

    • 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
    • Kabye Yam Mounds

    • Kabye Yam Mounds
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    • Kabye of northern Togo are famous for their gigantic yams. They take great pride in the size of their yam mounds and the enormous size of their yams. The best way to prepare yams is to make fufu. After boiling the yams, women put them in a large...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kyrgyzstan Stroll

    • 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
    • Language Barrier

    • Language Barrier
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    • This was taken in my host village in Fiji on June 19, 2011. The girl in the picture is my neighbor's daughter and is normally shy. She spoke no English and I was still learning Fiji Hindi so our conversations were limited to "hello." She was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Leid Mqqurn

    • Leid Mqqurn
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    • This photo was taken at my host families' house in Morocco during the 2011 Leid Mqqurn. On the tenth day of the last month of the year, the Islamic world celebrates its yearly sacrificial feast. In Morocco it is known as "the great feast." It is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mangrove Booth

    • Mangrove Booth
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    • At the mangrove ecology booth at the Tanauan Extension High School Science Exhibition, Volunteer Peter Barlow taught high school students about mangrove ecology and their importance to the coastal ecosystem in the Philippines. Afterward students...
    • Volunteer Photos

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