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    • Building with Bottles

    • Building with Bottles

    • Environment; Schools

    • This photo was taken on June 3, 2011 in Guatemala. The community is comprised of people who were displaced during the Guatemalan Civil War and were given this land as a part of the Peace Accords. It is five hours from its municipal capital and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Benny and her Baby Brother

    • Benny and her Baby Brother

    • Children

    • Benny is a village child who is holding her baby brother on her back. Sweat is pouring down her face as it is hot and it is a lot of work to carry around a child. This picture was taken in a village on the east coast of Madagascar. This picture was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aissatou Roasting a Marshmallow

    • Aissatou Roasting a Marshmallow

    • Cooking; Host community friends

    • My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, where I was posted, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make s’mores and the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mural Celebration

    • Mural Celebration

    • Art; Teachers and students

    • I took this photo of my eleventh grade students celebrating their final paint strokes during a school mural project in Orsova, Romania. In the project, eight high school classes were able to design and paint a mural, it was an amazing experience...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Solar cooking in Northern Togo

    • Solar cooking in Northern Togo

    • Cooking; Environment

    • This is a photo I took March 15, 2009. It is a photo of a group of women potters in Sibrototi, Togo who met once a week under the mango tree to do a village savings a loan program. I taught health lessons during these meetings and for one of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Finding our Place

    • Finding our Place

    • Host families

    • The village medicine man points to the location of his ancestral heritage on a map of Morocco as my host father and I look on. We are standing outside his home-cum-office located at the footsteps to the local shrine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Harvesting Nasi

    • Harvesting Nasi

    • Food and meals; Agriculture; Pre-service training (PST)

    • Two Volunteers take part in a training session at local rice paddies in Tlekung, Indonesia (Java Timur). They beat the rice plants to remove kernels, which are later dried to allow removal of actual rice.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Alphonse and his Family

    • Alphonse and his Family

    • Host community friends; Counterparts

    • This is a photo of myself and some of my favorite people in Cameroon! This picture was taken in 2010 at my friend/coworker, Alphonse’s house. He was the most honest, kind and hard working person I was honored to meet. In the picture are his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Casting His Net

    • Casting His Net

    • Fishing; Host families

    • I took this picture at a picnic that I went to with my host family. We went out to the forest and there was a small pond. In that pond, to my amazement, was a variety of aquatic life. Shrimp, crab, snails, catfish, and small white fish were among...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soy Farming Group in Meri, Cameroon

    • Soy Farming Group in Meri, Cameroon

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

    • While serving in the village Meri, in the extreme north region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in village. To pass the time while we worked, they would teach me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Malaria Activities

    • World Malaria Activities

    • Drama

    • This picture was taken in Cotonou Benin in June 2010 (late Malaria Day celebrations). A theatrical group form Allada Benin was hired to put on a skit about malaria. In this scene, the girl standing is acting as a mosquito and is showing how she...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Local Dance

    • Local Dance

    • Dance; Youth

    • Four teenage villagers are dancing for an audience at an event in Tsivangiana. Tsivangiana is located on the east coast of Madagascar. The photo was taken in 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Helping with the Pilar

    • Helping with the Pilar

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • This picture was taken outside of my village, Meri, in the extreme north region of Cameroon. My friend Abel and I went to visit his sister who lived en brosse (in the bush) in a very small community. I helped his sister piler, pound, millet and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Silk

    • Weaving Silk

    • Crafts; Artisans; Host families

    • This is a picture of my host mother's eldest sister weaving silk on the loom outside of her house. This practice is traditionally passed down to women from generation to generation. Women all over the village (mainly the elders) can be seen making...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Three Kyrgyz Women

    • Three Kyrgyz Women

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken in Toluk village where my host family had taken me guesting. This is my host mother, her sister-in-law, and her sister-in-law's mother.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family During the Rce Harvest

    • Family During the Rce Harvest

    • Host families; Agriculture

    • I took this picture when I was helping my host family harvest rice last fall. The whole family helps with the harvest, even the little ones. The machinery for separating the rice from the stock is rented from farmers (as seen in the background)....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Jaja and Kids

    • Jaja and Kids

    • Children

    • Jaja is hanging out with local children from a village on the east coast of Madagascar. A photo opportunity presented itself. The photographer took advantage of the moment to snap a picture of the Volunteer and four children.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working in the soy field.

    • Working in the soy field.

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

    • While serving in the village of Meri, in the extreme north region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in the village. To pass the time while we worked, they would...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Croc

    • Croc

    • Animals

    • Africa. Mlilwane Game Reserve, Swaziland, July 2010. This was taken during our first trip away from our training village during pre-service training, having been in Swaziland less then a month. We took a trip to the Mlilwane Game Reserve to see...
    • Volunteer Photos

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