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    • Great Smile

    • Great Smile
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    • This photo was taken in the market of a young friendly boy. He was trying to figure out who these tall strange looking foreigners were.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friends and Neighbors

    • Friends and Neighbors
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    • Three girls that were neighbors but they were friends with each other. One was a Hindu, one was Muslim and one a Christian. The little boy was a younger brother of the first girl. Despite their religious differences they always hung out together.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pool Tournament

    • Pool Tournament
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    • This photo was taken in 2010 in Casas Viejas, El Jicaro, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. I did a pool tournament in which groups of men competed in pool and in between each round listened to a lesson about agriculture practices or sexual health. At the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friend and Tutor

    • Friend and Tutor
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    • This photo was taken in my friend Subaiya's garden. She did not have a camera and wanted to have us in a photo together. She tutored me in Hindi for the first year I lived in Jabalpur. She was a teacher at one of the local schools.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Our Cook

    • Our Cook
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    • This is a photo of Moti Laal. He was our cook, houskeeper, protector, friend, and true cultural advisor. He dressed up this day to have his photo taken. He is standing outsde of the front door to our bungalow. Note his new attire and the screened...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ukraine Train Station - Arrival at Site

    • Ukraine Train Station - Arrival at Site
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    • The picture is of my Ukrainian Coordinator, Natalya Musulya, picking me up at the L'viv, Ukraine, train station. I had just completed my three months of language training in Fastiv, as part of Ukraine-Group 28 I was posted to serve at the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Town Center

    • Town Center
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    • I took this photo in December of 2006 of buildings in the Town Center of L'viv Ukraine. Featured in the upper right is the building that housed the town library (Biblioteka) I conducted the weekly evening English Club there and was going to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Craft Time

    • Craft Time
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    • 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
    • Feok Festival

    • Feok Festival
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    • 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
    • Ukraine Cemetery

    • Ukraine Cemetery
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    • I took this picture in April of 2005 during my language training in Fastive, Ukraine. I passed this cemetery everyday as I walked from my host family's home to the town center for language lessons with my training group. Note that cemetery...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old One

    • Old One
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    • I was visiting my host mom (a teacher of Russian) at her school. She and a couple of other tachers where cleaning their classrooms before the school year started. This lady, whom I called "old one" was there to help. She was the regular cleaning...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Ghanian mother and I

    • My Ghanian mother and I
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    • 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
    • Picnic

    • Picnic
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    • 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

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