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    • Roger Supervising Playground Workers

    • Roger Supervising Playground Workers
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    • Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows Roger, my Peace Corps partner, in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philippines, supervising town workers provided by Mayor Bautista, in creating a town children's playground. We ultimately set up several...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance with the devil

    • Dance with the devil

    • Dance

    • Taken at Tokpombu Nongowa, a village on Dama Road just south of Kenema in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Here the local Bondo Devil stops to dance with a villager. My wife, Susan, is in the picture - she is in the back on the left. This was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pa Foday Koroma

    • Pa Foday Koroma

    • Elders

    • Village chief, Pa Foday, was also a weaver of local "country cloth." Here on his veranda, he weaves traditional cotton cloth on a tripod Mende loom. Pa Foday was a very amusing man. Although he spoke little in the way of English, from time to time,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Elizabeth and Issetta

    • Elizabeth and Issetta

    • Host community friends

    • Taken on Dama Road in Kenema in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, and at the house across the road from where I lived, young Elizabeth poses with her nearly year old daughter on the veranda of her house. Elizabeth was one of our first friends....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Joe William and Family

    • Joe William and Family

    • Host community friends

    • While I was a Volunteer, I had a simple dark room to develop negatives. Neighbors got wind of this and soon they were asking me to take their pictures. I would give them a printed picture in exchange. In this photo, Joe William and his wife and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ye Massa with Segburreh

    • Ye Massa with Segburreh

    • Host community friends

    • Taken outside my door, Ye Massa stopped to give me this wonderful smile and pose with the segburreh that she was playing as she headed past with a group of women from the local Bondo. Ye Massa and her husband Pa Sam were my friends. They lived...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pa Sam at his Farm House

    • Pa Sam at his Farm House

    • Host community friends; Food and meals

    • Taken in 1969 at the end of the rain season (probably late summer), I worked with Pa Sam on his upland rice farm near Vaama Nongowa in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. A most generous man, he would see to it that when his friends might be low...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reading "Mad"

    • Reading "Mad"

    • Host families

    • Taken about December, 1964, the photo shows Gregorio Dedal, the owner of the home we two Volunteers stayed in for the two years of our Peace Corps service. My parents sent me the Mad magazine and I shard it with Mr. Dedal. I don't know that he...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Philippine Neighbor Girl

    • Philippine Neighbor Girl

    • Host families

    • This picture is of a 2 or 3-year old neighbor girl sitting on the bamboo front step of her house. Her family worked for the Gregorio Dedal family with whom I, as a Volunteer, lived. I never knew the name of the girl but I took the picture (about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pasca

    • Pasca

    • Religion; Celebrations

    • Easter is a special time in Ukraine. While still in pre-service training, my cluster and I were taken by our language and cultural facilitator to the local art school in our village. We were told we would paint eggs. We were not told it would take...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Finishing Touches on the Seesaws

    • Finishing Touches on the Seesaws

    • Secondary projects; Children

    • Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows Richard Johnsen (myself) painting the seesaws before the grand opening of the town playground of Canlaon, Negros Oriental, Philippines. With the approval of the town mayor and the help of town workers, the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Town Children Take Over the Seesaws.

    • Town Children Take Over the Seesaws.

    • Secondary projects; Children

    • Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows how enthusiastically the town children (Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philippines) adopted the new seesaws, overseen by Volunteers Roger and Richard and approved by the town mayor, Mr. Bautista.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Guatemala Goes Green!

    • Guatemala Goes Green!

    • Celebrations

    • I took this photo on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2011, with a local family in Guatemala. We made a number of green foods including green pupusas, guacamole, and green tortillas, explaining the background of St. Patrick's Day and bringing 'luck'...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Increasing Yields

    • Increasing Yields

    • Agriculture; Counterparts

    • This photo was taken in December 2010 in Tanzania, during a training class conducted with our host country national counterparts on perma-gardening. We worked all day in the Tanzanian sun to build a working garden that would help to teach the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Digging for Our Future

    • Digging for Our Future

    • Agriculture; Gardens

    • This picture was taken in December of 2010 in Tanzania. It was during a day long training on high yield gardening. The participants were host country nationals and Peace Corps Volunteers. We all dug our hands and minds into the process that day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Little Christmas Tea

    • A Little Christmas Tea

    • Celebrations

    • This picture was taken in December 2010, during Christmas. Another Volunteer came to my site and was able to complete a cultural exchange by offering homemade bread on Christmas day to the Host Country Nationals.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Curiosity

    • Curiosity

    • Children

    • This photo was taken at a Secondary School in Tanzania in December 2010, while in-service training was taking place for the health and environment Volunteers. We were there to learn more about their active chicken project and were studying in a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Párvulos

    • Párvulos

    • Children

    • Preschool children of Guatemala standing in the shade of their school’s lamina roof, to avoid the heat of the day, during snack break. May 24, 2011
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Me and the Cheif

    • Me and the Cheif

    • Dignitaries

    • This picture was taken in December of 2010 in my village in Tanzania. Upon entry into my village a few months earlier the Chief insisted on giving me a village name and declaring me the daughter of the village. This is the Chief and Mbozyo.
    • Volunteer Photos

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