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    • Parachute English Club

    • Parachute English Club

    • children; games

    • Hand-me-downs are big in Peace Corps and thats exactly how I go this parachute. I used it for my 3rd graders English Club as a reward for good behavior. This is the mushroom game which in involves team work to get the parachute to take on the shape...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Ghanian mother and I

    • My Ghanian mother and I

    • host families

    • This picture was taken when I was sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolgatanga, Ghana in 2002. My Ghanian mother (pictured) spent hours making this dress and told me we had to dress the same as we're family and it's what you do. I had never...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lunch Break

    • Lunch Break

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • This was taken when my Director of the EE sector came for our first meeting to do a needs assesment for a surrounding five villages and the local French school and all its teachers. The women in my village, Daru Thiouben, cooked lunch and carried...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Feok Festival

    • Feok Festival

    • Celebrations; Host community friends

    • This was taken at the annual Feok Festival in Sandema, UER, Ghana - 2002. It is the harvest celebration and also the celebration of the Builsa people fighting off the slave raider Babatu. The Builsas are a proud people as you can see from the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating an American Halloween in Bulgaria

    • Celebrating an American Halloween in Bulgaria

    • Celebrations; Children

    • Bulgarians don't really celebrate Halloween, but I introduced the holiday to my students. My kindergarteners especially loved celebrating it and got dressed up for the occasion. There was a pirate, Spiderman, a ghost, a dinosaur, and a witch among...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Let's learn to recycle

    • Let's learn to recycle

    • Celebrations; Children

    • The photo was taken during the annual feria parade in my site in Guatemala. Every school in the town participates and has to make a costume. The school presented in the photo is one of the schools I work with called EORM El Mezcal. They chose the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Processing Palm Kernal Oil

    • Processing Palm Kernal Oil

    • Counterparts; cooking

    • This photo was taken on July 11, 2011, in Ghana. These women are taking the kernels from the oil palm fruit and processing them into oil. This labor intensive process provides an additional source of income during the summer months before the cocoa...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picnic

    • Picnic

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; food and meals

    • This photo was taken on June 10, 2007 in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Our group of community development Volunteers decided to conclude our three months of training by inviting our host families to a picnic. Ukrainians and Volunteers mingled around a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Craft Time

    • Craft Time

    • Artisans; elders

    • I have been serving in Belize for the past two years. My primary assignment is working with a small mayan womens group that runs a craft center. Part of the way I decided to integrate better was to learn how to make the crafts just like them. This...
    • Volunteer Photos

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