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    • Mid-Air Aerobics, or Takraw

    • Mid-Air Aerobics, or Takraw

    • Sports

    • This photo was taken at a takraw match during Sports Week in a village in Thailand during March, 2011. Takraw is a popular sport in Southeast Asia, in which players use their feet and heads to play a game similar to volleyball. They kick and bunt...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where the Wild Things Are

    • Where the Wild Things Are

    • Libraries; Children

    • This is a photo of a Guatemalan boy enjoying a copy of "Donde Los Monstruos Viven" or "Where the Wild Things Are." His rural school received over 100 books as part of a library donation from the USA.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning to Compost

    • Learning to Compost

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken May 26, 2009 at the multi-grade school in the community of San Ramon, on the island of Ometepe, Nicaragua. In this photo the 5th and 6th grade students and their teacher are practicing how to make organic compost after first...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Birthdate Thrills!

    • Birthdate Thrills!
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    • What a delight to discover that we were born only two days apart in October of 1946. We found each other in the garden at the Golden Buddha Temple in Tong Nan during the Dragon Boat Festival on June 5, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rice Paddies, Gasy Style

    • Rice Paddies, Gasy Style

    • Terrain

    • I took this photo July 4th, 2011, while hiking on the outskirts of Andringitra National Park in Southern Madagascar. I was hiking with a guide and porter, both of whom I work and live with in a small village, and two French tourists. I remember...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Summer Girls of Wu Long

    • Summer Girls of Wu Long

    • Children

    • I took this photo during a summer project in Wu Long, the poorest corner of Chongqing Municipality, China. The girls were hanging out on a tennis judging stand outside the Wu Long Experimental Middle School teaching building where 17 of us were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "I didn't win?"

    • "I didn't win?"

    • Sports; Youth

    • In between soccer matches during Sports Week, the kids had the opportunity to get on the field for a game of catching ducks. This March 2011, there were torrential rains in Thailand, making for a field more set for mud wrestling. These boys had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandpa's Turn to Raise Baby

    • Grandpa's Turn to Raise Baby

    • Elders; Children

    • Taken during the Dragon Boat Festival on June 5. The red head band is put on the baby's head to protect the soft spot. Single children are raised by as many as six adults: two sets of grandparents who retire relatively young and the parents who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Selling Vegetables with Mom

    • Selling Vegetables with Mom

    • Markets

    • Taken while visiting the ancient town of Zhong Shan, Chongqing Municipality, China, Sunday, March 27, 2011. The vegetables, including fiddlehead ferns, were gathered in the nearby countryside.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Class in Guatemala

    • Dance Class in Guatemala

    • Dance; Teachers and students

    • For six months, I taught dance class after school for interested students in the urban area of my municipality. All the girls would get tired of the repetition of flamenco footwork, so to keep them motivated I ended dance class with freestyle...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing for the First Lady

    • Dancing for the First Lady

    • Dance; Dignitaries

    • After six months of dance class, my dance class and I had the opportunity to dance in front of a huge audience - including the then-First Lady Sandra Torres de Colóm and Minister of Health - at the launch of the social welfare program Mi Familia...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working with Orphans

    • Working with Orphans

    • Art; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken at a health center in Ethiopia. The Volunteer is encouraging children who were orphaned by HIV to be creative and express themselves using art (paper and markers).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Halloween Dance Party In Bulgaria

    • Halloween Dance Party In Bulgaria

    • Celebrations

    • This photo was taken on October 29, 2010 in the gym at Gimnasia Vasil Levsk (high school) in Bulgaria. I worked with a group of students to present a Halloween Party. There was a skit, a song, and a group of students performed the Thriller Dance,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating Accomplishment Together

    • Celebrating Accomplishment Together

    • Secondary projects; Counterparts

    • This photo was taken on August 4th, 2011 at the grand opening of the newly renovated firehouse which facilitated the creation of fire safety and prevention program for my town Macedonia. The cake displays the logo of the fire department and the 3...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wash Day

    • Wash Day

    • Life skills

    • The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site in Jawand, Afghanistan (1972). Villagers maintained their daily chores during the food distributions.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Artisan at Work

    • Artisan at Work

    • Artisans

    • I found this man in a tiny village, an oasis dried up by years of drought. If not for the few wires one could see hanging outside some adobe homes, the sensation was of entering a warp to a time when history began. The man's potter wheel was run...
    • Volunteer Photos

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