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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
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- Philippine Neighbor Girl
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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
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- Dance with the devil
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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
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- Elizabeth and Issetta
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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
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- Pa Foday Koroma
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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
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- Joe William and Family
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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
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- Ye Massa with Segburreh
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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
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- Pa Sam at his Farm House
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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
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