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    • 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
    • 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
    • Ukraine Train Station - Arrival at Site

    • Ukraine Train Station - Arrival at Site

    • Architecture; transportation

    • 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

    • architecture; weather

    • 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
    • Ukraine Cemetery

    • Ukraine Cemetery

    • death; funerals

    • 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
    • Pool Tournament

    • Pool Tournament

    • games; health

    • 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
    • Our Cook

    • Our Cook

    • Host families;

    • 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
    • Great Smile

    • Great Smile

    • children

    • 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
    • Children's Day Festival Middle School

    • Children's Day Festival Middle School

    • host community friends

    • After the big children's day parade, a group of middle school students, the principal, the assistant principal and a male teacher posed with me on the steps of the Karamanli Orta Okulu. I'm standing in the background and except for my smile and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friends and Neighbors

    • Friends and Neighbors

    • children

    • 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
    • Friend and Tutor

    • Friend and Tutor

    • host community friends

    • 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
    • Celebrating Halloween at Wat Yaida School

    • Celebrating Halloween at Wat Yaida School

    • Celebrations; children

    • We had a belated Halloween party in November 2010 at Wat Yaida School. This photo is of my 5th grade class and me dressed up in our costumes. The classes that I taught, grades 5 and 6, made decorations, dressed up in costumes and went...
    • 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

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