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    • A Bibi in Full Attention

    • A Bibi in Full Attention

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This picture was taken in December 2010 in Tanzania. The woman in the picture was listening to a presentation about her chicken farm that was for the benefit of Peace Corps Volunteers who would potentially begin chicken projects in their own...
    • 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
    • Composting

    • Composting

    • Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken in July 2010, as I'm surrounded by fifth and sixth graders of primary school in Club Huascaran in the school in my site in Peru. I formed this environmental club to promote conserving and protecting the environment as well as...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Fuel Efficient Stove Building

    • Fuel Efficient Stove Building

    • Technology

    • This picture was taken in May of 2011 in my village in Tanzania. This was taken during a stove building project where two stoves were built as demonstration stoves for two families to use and then give testimonials about. There were several...
    • 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
    • Illuminating

    • Illuminating

    • Children; Celebrations; Religion

    • I took this photo while in a nearby town in October of 2009 during the town's week-long party celebrating their saint's day. To commemorate the celebration, all the women placed candles on the church floor which cast a glow somehow sad and hopeful...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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