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    • Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra

    • Zahra, Mouhou, and Terra

    • Traditional dress; Food and meals; Counterparts

    • 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
    • Zahra Baking Bread

    • Zahra Baking Bread

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • 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
    • Zahra at Cave Door

    • Zahra at Cave Door

    • Artisans; Terrain

    • 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
    • Zahra and Terra weaving in her cave

    • Zahra and Terra weaving in her cave

    • Artisans; Crafts

    • 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
    • Work Outing

    • Work Outing

    • Transportation; Counterparts

    • 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
    • Thai Girl and Fish

    • Thai Girl and Fish

    • Children; Fishing

    • 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
    • Talia In Waiting

    • Talia In Waiting

    • Host families; Weddings; Pre-service training (PST)

    • This photo is of our pre-service training host family granddaughter, six year-old Talia, while waiting for the start of a wedding ceremony on July 9, 2011. Our host parents' nephew was to be married that afternoon in San Ignacio, Cayo Distrcit,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stars and Stripes Forever in Honduras

    • Stars and Stripes Forever in Honduras

    • Children

    • This photo was taken around the 4th of July at the Instituto Hondureno de la Ninez y la Familia (IHNFA) in Honduras. IHNFA is a government organization that serves children living in extreme poverty, and children of working mothers (under age 7)....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Songkran in Nongtakai

    • 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
    • Shearing of the Vicuñas

    • Shearing of the Vicuñas

    • Animals; Celebrations

    • One of the most interesting and unique experiences of my Peace Corps service was participating in the annual "roundup" and shearing of the vicuñas. Vicuñas are wild camelids that are native to the Andean highlands. These animals are known for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Quinceanera

    • Quinceanera

    • Celebrations

    • I took this photo during a 15th birthday celebration (quinceanera) at my site. In Honduras, quinceanera celebrations mark the coming-of-age for girls. In poor communities, such as this one, the quinceanera may be the only birthday celebration a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peaches Drying in the Sun

    • Peaches Drying in the Sun

    • Food and meals

    • 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
    • Neem Cream

    • Neem Cream

    • Environment

    • Here is a photo I took in May 2011 while teaching one of my local women's groups how to make organic mosquito repellant using the medicinal elements of boiled down leaves from the neem tree.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Naka Pounding Yams

    • Naka Pounding Yams

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • The Kabye people of northern Togo are famous for their huge yams. Village women share their way of making fufu, which is eaten with a variety of different sauces. A favorite in the photographer’s village of Affem Kabye was ground peanut, sesame,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Host Sister Naima

    • My Host Sister Naima

    • Host families

    • 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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