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    • Trust Fall

    • Trust Fall

    • Youth development

    • This photo, taken on July 21, 2011, depicts Peace Corps trainee Jeff as he demonstrates "trust falls' with Peruvian youth at the local colegio in Peru during field-based training. Youth development Volunteers often use self-esteem and trust...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dressed like a Moroccan

    • Dressed like a Moroccan

    • Traditional dress; Host families

    • I love Moroccan clothing and so I couldn't wait to try them on. I was thrilled when one of my host relatives suggested that I wear a Kaftan at a dinner party. My aunts and cousins dressed me up in this fabulous dress that was a bit long for me, but...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • I Am

    • I Am

    • Host families; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken in beautiful Belize in spring 2011. My sister is the girl in the photo. She is a strong girl with strong opinions and in this photo she is stating a statement about her life.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The First Cuy Sighting

    • The First Cuy Sighting

    • Food and meals; Markets

    • This photo was taken on July 17, 2011 in the market of Huaraz, Ancash, Peru during my Peace Corps training. Guinea pig, or rather Cuy, is a delicacy in Peru that I had wanted to try since I first arrived in the country. I took this photo because I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • To Pasture

    • To Pasture

    • Animals; Agriculture

    • This image was taken during my site visit in Peru on August 12, 2011. A new friend in my community, an 11 year-old boy named Toni, took me on a walk around the outskirts of town to show me the beautiful surrounding scenery. On the way back home, we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soccer Viewing

    • Soccer Viewing

    • Sports; Pre-service training (PST)

    • This mom and son watched a soccer match at a health event put on by Peace COrps trainees in our homestay village.
    • 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
    • Gaining Perspective

    • Gaining Perspective

    • Terrain

    • In this picture I am overlooking my Sierra/mountain community in Peru. I would climb up to the Cerro Miramar (Mountain Looking out to the ocean) typically at a bi-weekly rate to gain perspective of my work, see the outer perimeter of my district...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making solar ovens in Dapaong

    • Making solar ovens in Dapaong

    • Technology

    • This photo was taken March 31, 2009 in Dapaong, Togo. I taught health classes at this domestic science school once a week and one day taught them to make solar ovens out of card board and tin foil and baking bags. They were all very impressed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baby Weighing

    • Baby Weighing

    • Maternal and child health

    • Melissa Kadzik is weighing a baby at a monthly baby weighing and education session for mothers in Toweta Benin. January 2008. Babies are weighed hanging from the scale. Most babies were more scared of the white girl then hanging from the scale.
    • 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
    • The Spirit of Volunteerism

    • The Spirit of Volunteerism

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in December 2010 in Mozambique. My girls youth group was reaching out to vulnerable children in our villa who were living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. We made up care packages as an encouragement; stuffing hand sews sacks...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Playing Omweso

    • Playing Omweso

    • Games; Host community friends

    • Here, I'm playing Omweso, a local board game, with a local farmer in the nearby trading center of Mpatta village in Mukono District. As was typically the case, in addition to playing Omweso, we exchanged news, upcoming village events, and even the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tea Time

    • Tea Time

    • Food and meals

    • A volunteer is preparing tea after a long days hard work for all of the other volunteers. He participated in helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. You can still see the cement bags that have yet to be used in...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Taking a Break

    • Taking a Break

    • Construction; Volunteerism

    • I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. A boy who stayed after school to watch the volunteers work and a volunteer are sitting together on a wooden beam.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nothing But Cement

    • Nothing But Cement

    • Construction; Volunteerism

    • I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out. Amazingly, 11volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Having fun

    • Having fun

    • Construction; Volunteerism

    • I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out (June 2011). Amazingly, 11 volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
    • Volunteer Photos

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