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    • Just Landed

    • Just Landed

    • Pre-service training (PST); Host families

    • Taken during in the first week of May 2011 during the beginning of my Peace Corps training. This picture was taken using a timer, from the rooftop of my host-family's home in Guatemala. I'm taking in my new surroundings, contemplating the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Oware Tournament

    • Oware Tournament

    • Transportation; Games

    • Photo taken during school leave in August 2, 2011 in a village in Ghana. During each school leave, there is a designated game that is played tournament style. On this particular day, I saw at least 7 oware boards dug in the ground in two separate...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Easter in Thailand

    • Easter in Thailand

    • Celebrations; Children

    • Following an Easter Egg Hunt in Thailand in April, 2011 -- the kids showed off the eggs they found! Eggs contained coins, candy and some Easter tattoos!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Game On

    • Game On

    • Games

    • During my first week at site, I was introduced to the love Thai people have for sports. Even though there was torrential rain and flooding, the games went on. In between soccer games, the children had fun chasing down ducks in this case, and on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What the Tourists Didn't See

    • What the Tourists Didn't See

    • Business development

    • That’s Dirck Kuzatjike in the gray jacket. He stands in front of the white board he has borrowed from my office in order to host a meeting on the street corner. All the people gathered around him are members of his organization, the Young...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bringing Home Dinner

    • Bringing Home Dinner

    • Animals; Food and meals

    • I took this photo while walking around the informal settlements in Namibia in early 2011. This man has just shot a warthog in the bush and is bringing it home to feed his family.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dental Clinic Sing-a-long

    • Dental Clinic Sing-a-long

    • Health

    • This photo is from a dental clinic Mary organized last Feb. 5, 2011 in conjunction with AMPBD (Association Morocaine De Prevention Bucco-Dentaire). Approximately 400 children attended.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Parachute Game

    • Parachute Game

    • Games; Children

    • A group of Elementary School School students play the Parachute game in Guatemala. All of the elementary school students participated in a day of games and activities organized by the local municipality. Children in this part of Guatemala often...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • This photo was taken of me while distributing supplies that were donated by an elementary school in the U.S. to a rural Mayan school in Guatemala. As an agricultural extentionist from '99 - '01, I often worked in schools such as this one, helping...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Keep Vava'u Clean

    • Keep Vava'u Clean

    • Environment; Youth; Games

    • VEPA, Vava'u Environmental Protection Association, an NGO in Vava'u is dedicated to the conservation of Vava'u's natural beauty through educational awareness, sustainable development and collaboration. It held a week long, multi-village cleanup and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fakaleiti Couple

    • Fakaleiti Couple

    • Career; Education

    • During English Week we had a career day where students and teachers dress up as people/ occupations they want to be. Here is one teacher, dressed up as a flight attendant with a student dressed up as a pregnant doctor.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Moving Day

    • Moving Day

    • Transportation

    • Halfway through our time in Bangladesh, my site mate and I moved to a different apartment down the road. We transported all our household goods by rickhsaw. Moving day in our town looked very different than it may have in the United States.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Shuar Miga: Building a Community Water System

    • Shuar Miga: Building a Community Water System

    • Water and sanitation

    • I took this picture with a tripod and timer, so that's why I'm in it too. The community work party from San Luis, a Shaur community located near Tiasha, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador, is constructing part of a 7 km potable water pipeline. Tiasha was a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Farmer Paul

    • Farmer Paul

    • Gardens; Host families

    • This is photo is of me during pre-service training woking in the garden at my host families house. The woman is Lena, my host mother. The photo was taken in April of 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos

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