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    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Samburu Women DC 4th July Parade

    • Samburu Women DC 4th July Parade

    • Celebrations

    • Samburu women from a Volunteer's site in Kenya were selected to participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC, where they demonstrated the traditional art of weaving camel's milk baskets. While there, they watched a 4th of July...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cleaning Beans with Friends

    • Cleaning Beans with Friends

    • cooking

    • This photo was taken a fellow Volunteer on August 13th, 2011, in the Choco's cocine/kitchen. They are all laughing as they talk about when they were first dating their future husbands and how nervous they were to eat or even get a Coke in front of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Roll Together

    • We Roll Together

    • Cooking; Host families; Food and meals

    • This is a photo of my host mother (Aishe) and I. This was the first time we made byrek together. She was teaching me how to effectively roll thin layers of pastry dough for the byrek. The photo was taken March 20, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • READ!!!

    • READ!!!

    • schools; children

    • This photo was taken at Saint Monica's Primary School located along the Upper Pomeroon in the country of Guyana in March of 2011. It was taken during the reading lesson of the day, where the students would share the stories they read to the rest...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tanasho Community Schoool

    • Tanasho Community Schoool

    • Teachers and students

    • Volunteer Susan Poore opened a new community school in a village in Zambia. In this photo, we see her teaching mathematics while community teachers watch in the back.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wardrobe Change

    • Wardrobe Change

    • Traditional dress; Host families

    • This is a photo taken of my host mother, her grandson, and I after she dressed me up in traditional Albanian clothing. The photo was taken in March 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mardi Gras in the Campo

    • Mardi Gras in the Campo

    • children; celebrations;

    • This was taken in February of 2010 in my community in Panama. During Carnaval I spiced up my English class by talking about Mardi Gras, our carnaval. The students made masks to celebrate. Dixon, my landlandy's son, is actually wearing the mask his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Long View of a Country House

    • Long View of a Country House

    • children; Host families

    • This photo was taken during my first month in site, in July of 2009, at my host family's residence. Johnny is standing in the foreground, Angel is running with a truck, Jose Carmen is standing, and in the background Eduardo and Gisy are braiding...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fruits of our Labor

    • Fruits of our Labor

    • children; agriculture; Host families

    • I took this picture of a fellow Volunteer in my village on September 17, 2010. This was a celebratory picture because the eggplant that Kris is holding is the first vegetable to come from the garden in our compound. The children pictured are my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Smiling Students

    • Smiling Students

    • children; schools; environment

    • I took this picture of elementary school students on January 10, 2011 in my village. The staff, students, and family members were holding a local cleaning exercise at the Lower Basic school, and I was walking around taking pictures when the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bombali

    • Bombali

    • fishing

    • I took this picture while visiting a Fellow Volunteer in his village on March 10, 2010. We are standing beside a large stream flowing from the Gambia River, which runs up to his village. The fish he is holding is one caught by a local fisherman....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Play-doh with the Kindergarten

    • Making Play-doh with the Kindergarten

    • Games; Art

    • In Togo, almost no one speaks French, the official language, at home. They speak their local tribe languages. In kindergarten in Togo all the kids learn is French so that they can go on to school. I worked with the kindergarten class at Ecole...
    • Volunteer Photos

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