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    • 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
    • Jumping for Joy...and for a Playground!

    • Jumping for Joy...and for a Playground!

    • Secondary projects

    • This photo includes RPCV Teresa Havenar and Volunteer Patrick. It also includes two children, Alyona and Igor, that attended the school I was working at and who also helped build our playground. We were jumping for excitement over the delivery...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Karate Break on Laundry Day

    • Karate Break on Laundry Day

    • Life skills

    • Photo taken in February 2007 in our compound in Tibati, Cameroon. The family that lived in the same compound as my husband and I taught us so much about life in Cameroon, including how to do our laundry by hand like pros, and how to have fun while...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laundry Day

    • Laundry Day

    • Life skills

    • This photo was taken in August 2010 in Cambodia. This photo shows my neighbors laundry splayed over their barbed wire fence to dry.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning Lots

    • Learning Lots

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • The class of five-year-olds at the community preschool enjoying their music class with their enthusiastic teacher. I took this photo during the first few months of the preschool, which started in May, 2011. To date, the preschool is funded...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mama y Machete

    • Mama y Machete

    • Children

    • My husband and I currently serve in rural Costa Rica. During our community assessment process we conducted interviews around the community. On July 12, 2011, I took this photo as my husband took his turn at conducting the interviews. There were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Marching

    • Marching

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This primary school student was taking part in the independence day celebrations in town - Sierra Leone's fiftieth year of independence. Her eyes say more than I could write here. So much about her life, about her country, about the world. April...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Photo Class

    • Photo Class

    • Teachers and students

    • Volunteer Marisa helps students in her photography club critique their photos from the previous week's assignment. Community Youth Center, Zinder, Niger. January 8, 2010.
    • 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
    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • These students planned and hosted GuiYang Medical University's 3rd Annual Prom, "An Evening in Paris." The evening included American dances like the YMCA and country line dance, crowning of prom king and queen, and a performance by A Cappella group...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • Ramadan Feast

    • Ramadan Feast

    • Host families; Cooking; Food and meals; Celebrations

    • My grandmother grilling up every possible piece of the goat that was just slaughtered for the big religious feast for Ramadan.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ratanakiri Waterfall

    • Ratanakiri Waterfall

    • Terrain

    • I took this photo in July 2011 in Ratanakiri, Cambodia on a trip with one of my students to her homeland. This photo shows my student, her sister, brother-in-law, and fiance wading through a pond on their way to a waterfall.
    • 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
    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Host community friends; games

    • Yuan Xiao Lu, a graduate student at the univeristy where I served teaching English, became one of my favorite Scrabble buddies. April 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos

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