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    • Puppet Show

    • Puppet Show

    • Games; Teachers and students

    • My wife took this photo of me during a puppet show at her center. The sun was shining through the back door and happened to hit the book. Performing in the Philippines is culturally popular, and puppet shows provide young people the opportunity...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Indigenous Women's Ascent Volcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador

    • First Indigenous Women's Ascent Volcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women's movement

    • EMPOWERMENT, LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH THE ANDEAN WOMEN’S MOUNTAINEERING MOVEMENT In our “progressive” modern world, women continue to be discouraged from pursuing many of their hopes and dreams, especially in the developing...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creating Friendship Over Coffee

    • Creating Friendship Over Coffee

    • Counterparts

    • This photo was taken in a community in the mountainous region of Nicaragua. Featured in the photo are Volunteer Julie Westerman, and her Nicaraguan counterpart, Melba Perez. We are getting to know each other out on a farm her family owns. She is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reese and Boris

    • Reese and Boris

    • Host community friends

    • Strolling around on a Sunday afternoon after working in the training garden with my home-stay brother called Boris. Taken in the village of Mbo near Baffoussam, Western Province, Cameroon on December 13, 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tomasita, with Love

    • Tomasita, with Love

    • Pre-service training (PST); Host families

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in September of 2010. The woman in the center is celebrating a birthday. The married couple are current Peace Corps Volunteers, Julie Westerman and Matthew Reid. Tomasita, the woman featured, was host mom to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Northern Nicaragua from the Heavens

    • Northern Nicaragua from the Heavens

    • Terrain

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua from the top of a mountain called ¨Cerro La Gloria.¨ It was taken in December of 2010. Peace Corps Volunteers hiked to the top of the mountain to capture the beauty of this part of the country in order to share...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fourth of July in Ukraine

    • Fourth of July in Ukraine

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken on the 4th of July in the yard of my apartment building. I cooked some traditional American fried chicken, macaroni and cheese and potato salad. I also painted my neighbors faces with American symbols. The little girls kept...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Boys (Senegal)

    • Boys (Senegal)

    • Ceremonies

    • I took this photo in southern Senegal. It captures an important cultural event, the reintegration of boys into their community following a month in the "Bois Sacré" (Sacred Woods). The time spent in the forest was for learning survival skills...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Are You Ready For Some Football?

    • Are You Ready For Some Football?

    • Sports; Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken in Bugaria on the day of my American Football Camp with the village. The village is mostly Roma, and is located about 20 miles outside of Burgas. I had brought face paint and ribbons so all the girls could have their team...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Getting Off On the Right Foot

    • Getting Off On the Right Foot

    • Dance; Host families; Celebrations

    • In this picture I am dancing the Macedonian traditional dance, the Oro, for the first time with my host father. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but thankfully he was able to tell me the dance steps. Too bad I didnt understand enough...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Monsoon Rains!

    • Monsoon Rains!
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    • This is a picture of me (Linda Cunningham) walking through the flood waters during Monsoon season, January 1980 in Kota Bahru, Kelantan, Malaysia. A group of volunteers decided to walk/wade through our flooded town. As I think about it today I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trick or Treat!

    • Trick or Treat!

    • Celebrations

    • About mid-way through pre-service training was Halloween. A lot of people in our group really loved the holiday, and we knew we wanted to celebrate it with Macedonians in country. We decided to each go as a US holiday, including: Valentines Day,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ugandan Teachers Have Fun with Math

    • Ugandan Teachers Have Fun with Math

    • Games; Teachers and students

    • At a workshop of the new Primary Five Curriculum Rollout, I took this picture of our participants (P5 teachers) engaging in some of the stations I had set up. The new P5 curriculum is focus on learner-centered teaching. This station is a math...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Splash Day

    • Splash Day

    • Children

    • I work at a youth shelter in Dominica in the Easter Caribbean. This photo was taken during a "sea bath" with the children. I loved the expression of happiness on the young man's face.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching in Samoa

    • Teaching in Samoa

    • Teachers and students

    • This was taken while I was reading a Winnie-the-Pooh story to my Year 6 students in Samoa, in June 2010. The story involved Winnie-the-Pooh pretending to be a rain cloud so he could get the honey in the tree. I made a buzzing noise to help bring...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Future Volunteers

    • Future Volunteers

    • Staging

    • This picture was taken on June 2, 2011. After finishing staging in Washington D.C, here are the Peace Corps Trainees taking a final picture before leaving to Mali, West Africa. The June staging has water sanitation and education Volunteers.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Primary at Recess

    • Primary at Recess

    • Schools

    • I took this photo from the vantage point of the staff room of the Jinja Primary Teachers' College in July 2011. We are neighbors with a primary school and share the land. This picture shows some children playing dodge ball, while a cow grazes in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • American/Malian Cross Culture

    • American/Malian Cross Culture

    • Traditional dress

    • Pamela and Ashton celebrate the 4th of July in Mali, West Africa. Here we see a perfect example of cross culture as Pamela and Ashton wear traditional Malian pagne (which is a wraparound skirt) and the colors of the United States of America.
    • Volunteer Photos

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