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    • Preparing for a Wedding

    • Preparing for a Wedding

    • Cooking; Weddings; Host families

    • My host sister got married, and the festivities included 5 days worth of celebrating and 10 days worth of preparation. In this picture we are making the dessert Mathai.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing for Class

    • Preparing for Class

    • Counterparts

    • In my village, Goudoude Diobe, there was one primary school with five classes. Each of the classes had anywhere from 25-45 students. This shot was captured one day when I came to help as the teacher was looking over his notes for class.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • TB Vaccination Korea 1973

    • TB Vaccination Korea 1973

    • Health; Medicine

    • Ralph Echols, K24, gives a TB vaccination to a middle school studentat a Seul middle school, winter of 1972. This was part of our training practicum. Photo by Richard Trinrud.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • TB Control at a Middle School, Seoul, Korea

    • TB Control at a Middle School, Seoul, Korea

    • Health; Medicine

    • Richard Trinrud examines results of TB test for a Korean middle school student. This was a field trip practicum during our (K24) training. After the vaccinations and tests were done, the school principal treated the half dozen volunteers to a lunch...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kareema

    • Kareema

    • Host community friends

    • Illela, a rural town about five hundred miles northwest of Niamey, sits at the mouth of the Sahara Desert in the Republic of Niger. The desert moves inexorably forward, swallowing bit by bit farmers’ fields north of town. While living there as a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Volunteer Visit

    • Host Volunteer Visit

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken during my host Volunteer visit during pre-service training. I traveled into the interior to visit another Peace Corps Volunteer in a remote Amerindian village. This picture was taken after we completed teaching a session on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp HEAL

    • Camp HEAL

    • Camps and clubs

    • Camp HEAL (Human trafficking, Education, Aids/HIV, Leadership) is a camp held in Ukraine. The camp is a week long camp that helps educate the Ukrainian youth in these topics. In the picture are the camp directors, both Peace Corps Volunteers and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • Children; Celebrations; Sports

    • This picture was taken during a village holiday celebration on August 7, 2011 in Ukraine. Each year there is a big celebration for the village of 3500 people. There is a concert, games for children, shaslik (Ukrainian style bbq) dancing, and a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Passing the Time Bonding

    • Passing the Time Bonding

    • Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 10, 2011 in my house in Ecuador. It was taken in the afternoon after lunch time, when most of the people in my rural town are resting and staying out of the hot sun. The two girls in the photo are sisters, Juana (6), and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • International Language - Laughter

    • International Language - Laughter

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken of a fellow Volunteer walking with her host grandmother and grandson on April 20, 2011 in Ukraine. The photo show a connection between the Volunteer and host family, although there is a language barrier.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Friends

    • My Friends

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken July 30, 2011 during a mountain hike with the children of my host family in Guatemala. At this point in my service my best friends are these two boys, ages 9 and 11. We explore the mountains surrounding my town every weekend....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Happiness is Village Life in Bulgaria

    • Happiness is Village Life in Bulgaria

    • Sports

    • I took this photo in a small Muslim village in Bulgaria. The boys were climbing the fence after our soccer (football) game of Americans versus Bulgarians. Another Volunteer and I played together against some of the boys in the village. We had an...
    • Volunteer Photos

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