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    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; games

    • This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Team Building

    • Team Building

    • Celebrations; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 9, 2011 in Tryavna, Bulgaria, with a group of four volunteers who were taking part in Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary activities. The photo depicts a team building activity we are preparing to perform, and I am...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gaborone, Botswana World AIDS Day

    • Gaborone, Botswana World AIDS Day

    • hiv/aids; children

    • This photo is of our stall or tent at World AIDS Day Commemoration on December 9th, 2010 in Gaborone, Botswana in Tsholofelo Park. We are with the banner we carried on a long march (Stop AIDS Keep the Promise).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Moment for Life

    • A Moment for Life
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    • This photo was taken in South Africa during my Peace Corps service. It is on Lion's Head Mountain. I am sitting on the ledge watching the sunset. I had the opportunity while serving in Botswana to backpack through Southern Africa and this was the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Guitar Lessons at Xai-Xai Beach

    • Guitar Lessons at Xai-Xai Beach

    • music; children

    • I took this photo at Xai-Xai Beach in Mozambique right at the end of my Peace Corps Service in June of 2007. Justin is playing the guitar and David is sitting on the right. The boys sold necklaces made of shells at the beach and were intrigued by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching

    • Teaching

    • health

    • Peace Corps Peru Volunteer Shannon Doran is teaching a nutrition course with food group cut-outs as part of a "Healthy Homes" project that received funding from her Small Project Assistance grant from USAID. Forty-five women from her small...
    • 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
    • Tan Tan, Morocco

    • Tan Tan, Morocco

    • architecture

    • While traveling in far southern Morocco in 1993 with some Peace Corps friends, I came across this shuttered store with a lattice roof. I liked the Kodak sign and the shadows the lattice made, and when the woman walked past, the photo was complete!
    • 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
    • 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
    • Roxana decorates Christmas sugar cookies

    • Roxana decorates Christmas sugar cookies

    • Celebrations; Children; Food and meals

    • I took this photo 2010 at my host family's house in a coastal village in Ecuador. My family in the US sent me a care package full of sugar cookies, sprinkles, and icing so I invited my friends and neighbors over to decorate some traditional...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soccer with the boys

    • Soccer with the boys

    • sports; children

    • After arriving at our host training site, my site-mate and I were brought to play soccer with our host brother's friends. They had never seen a digital camera up close and were posing while Tom played with a few of them in the background.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rhythm

    • Rhythm

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Kathryn and Francisco Fernandez are Volunteers in Belmopan, Belize. This photo was taken at in Bermudan Landing at a baboon sanctuary during our first week in country as Trainees. Teaching us to hull rice, among other traditional practices, was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drum Lesson

    • Drum Lesson

    • music

    • One of our LCFs taught a fellow volunteer to play the local drums. The bus ride from seeing historic landmark was that much more fun with live music and everyone singing along.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Arabic lessons

    • Arabic lessons

    • Language training

    • We all were being taught Arabic in a local school. It was the first week in the country and the lessons had gotten stressful. We moved outside to get fresh air and the morale brightened.
    • Volunteer Photos

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