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    • 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
    • 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
    • Fish Fête

    • Fish Fête

    • Fishing; Celebrations

    • I took this photo during fish fête, an annual festival in the desert of Haute Guinea. These festivals take place after the dry season, when there is a lake left where the river usually flows during rainy season. These lakes are not fished until...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Form E Girls

    • Form E Girls

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in November of 1989 at the farewell celebration for our Form C and Form E students.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • From Above

    • From Above

    • Construction; Volunteerism

    • I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. This is a view taken from the top of the bathroom, looking down. This picture was taken by a Moroccan volunteer using my camera. The volunteers are...
    • 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
    • Girls Carrying Water on Heads

    • Girls Carrying Water on Heads

    • Water and sanitation; Terrain

    • Photograph was taken at the Avenue of Baobabs. Girls are carrying water on their heads to take back to their village. The picture was taken near Morandava, Madagascar in 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls' Summer Math and Leadership Camp

    • Girls' Summer Math and Leadership Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Youth; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • I took this photo during the summer camp that I organized and led during the summer between my two years of service. I invited girls from my 8th and 9th grade classes to participate in a week-long camp that consisted of math and science review,...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Home Cooking

    • Home Cooking

    • Cooking

    • This photo was taken while I was still in training near Swedru, Ghana and shows my next door neighbor Sarah Gyeswa and her friend pounding casava root to make foo foo for dinner. Foo foo is a gourmet favorite in Ghana but it took me a while to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Mother and Baby

    • Host Mother and Baby

    • Host families

    • I took this photo on the day of the celebration of Tabaski, 2006 in Brouwal Tappe, Guinea. This is my host mother at my site with her baby. My host mother had 5 of her own children, plus me made 6. I love to remember her this way because she was...
    • 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
    • Imagining Victory

    • Imagining Victory

    • Games; Youth; Host families

    • The day after I arrived at my pre-service host family's home, I was taken to the town of Borjomi, Georgia. Twelve year old Vasha competed in this chess tournament. I snapped this picture and within 2-3 moves, Vasha had won this game and with this...
    • 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

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