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    • La Vide da La Vega

    • La Vide da La Vega

    • Host community friends

    • This is a photo I took while visiting the family members of one of my community friends in La Vega, Dominican Republic. What was originally just an experiment testing out my new camera, turned into a fascinating portrait of Dominican "campo"...
    • Human Boggle

    • Human Boggle

    • Games; Camps and clubs

    • In this photo, Volunteer Robin plays a game with students at an English immersion summer camp that took place in South Kazakhstan in June 2011. The camp was attended by 83 students who participated in the "English Olympics." The students in this...
    • Making Piñatas

    • Making Piñatas

    • Camps and clubs

    • In this photo, Volunteer Erin assists students in making piñatas at an English immersion summer camp in South Kazakhstan. In connection with this project students learned about Mexican culture and it's presence in the United States.
    • E.T. Phone Home

    • E.T. Phone Home

    • Children

    • I was helping make hamburgers and fries with some other Volunteers for some of our Cameroonian friends while visiting my regional capital in the East, Bertoua. I love children here and this young girl seemed amiable enough that I could approach...
    • Team Building

    • Team Building

    • Games; Camps and clubs; Youth

    • The photo was taken during an Information, Education, Communication (IEC) campaign the Philippines. The kids in the photo are 4th year high school students along with the Volunteer who is leading them through a a team building exercise....
    • Rare Moment of Interaction

    • Rare Moment of Interaction

    • Weddings

    • This photo was taken at an Indo-Fijian wedding. Suva, Fiji- May 2011. The celebration last more than nine hours. This shot was a rare moment of interaction between the bride and groom...when most all of the ceremony was very solemn.
    • No electricity....Sega Na Leqa  (No Worries)

    • No electricity....Sega Na Leqa (No Worries)

    • Life skills; Technology

    • This photo was taken in Nagado, Fiji. during a sewing workshop I was conducting in January, 2011. I encouraged children to be part of the workshops and learn to sew and fix machines. These hand crank machines, along with natural sunlight, make the...
    • Sustainability

    • Sustainability

    • Life skills; Technology

    • This photo was taken at one of my sewing workshops in Fiji, South Pacific. I teach sewing skills that include repairing and maintaining sewing machines. My goal is that the participants know how to fix their only machines. In this photo- this...
    • The Tsáchilas Touch

    • The Tsáchilas Touch

    • Traditional dress

    • Here, a tribal member the Tsáchilas community is applying the achiote paste to dye my hair...a sign of their welcoming me and my Omnibus into their tribe for the day, but also a way for us to enter their world and not just observe, but FEEL, what...
    • Catching Carachama

    • Catching Carachama

    • Fishing

    • This photo is taken on the Rio Napo in Ecuador. A leaf called 'barbasco' is traditionally used as a fishing technique, as it consumes the oxygen in the water through its natural toxins and the fish die. The crushed leaf is released in the water...
    • An Unexpected 4th of July

    • An Unexpected 4th of July

    • Sports; Celebrations

    • This action shot was taken on, you guessed it, the 4th of July. Our Ecuadorian training crew treated us to an afternoon of American games and food (which we thoroughly enjoyed preparing and eating!). Afterwards, we all convened in the backyard of...
    • Coming Together

    • Coming Together

    • Celebrations

    • On Thanksgiving day, Peace Corps Volunteers come together before the feast. Hand on hands, we are together in our difficulties, our successes and our missions.
    • All Smiles

    • All Smiles

    • Teachers and students

    • Taken after a successful first day of co-teaching in Ecuador!! By the look on my face alone, nothing else can seem as certain as the knowledge that this day was the day I learned I could actually learn to love teaching... And what's more... Know...
    • Mascarilla in the Late Hours

    • Mascarilla in the Late Hours
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    • After a long and exciting soccer match with the local kids, a handful of us decided to go exploring a bit the night before we were to depart and return to Tumbaco, one of the cantons in Quito. What you see here is the marriage between a happy...
    • Mascarilla Boy

    • Mascarilla Boy

    • Children

    • This photo was taken on the last day of a cultural trip to Mascarilla. This little boy had been sitting very quietly for a long time before I snapped the shot, and as you can hopefully see for yourselves, I think it captures something impermanent...

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