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    • Raising Chickens

    • Raising Chickens
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    • I am checking on our young chickens as part of our in-country training in the summer of 1966. We built the coops and raised the chickens from chicks.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vegetable Garden

    • Vegetable Garden
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    • Unicef furnished us vegetable seeds so we could help the women in the villages learn to plant and maintain vegetable gardens to have a variety of vegetables all year long. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Winter 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At home with Captain Butalia

    • At home with Captain Butalia
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    • This is my husband Terry, also a PCV, and Captain Butalia. We are visiting in their home in India. The Butalias welcomed us into their home like we were family. We learn much of their culture and they were so curious about America and President...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cattle Plowing

    • Cattle Plowing
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    • This is a photo of one of the farmers my husband worked with plowing his field with his cattle. One of the ways my husband, Terry, helped the farmers was to educate them on using more than one fertilizer on their land. Punjab, India. Fall 1966
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carlita Hunts for Easter Eggs

    • Carlita Hunts for Easter Eggs
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    • During Holy Week I did a culture exchange with my women's group in Pino Dulce, Guatemala. We dyed Easter eggs and hid them for the kids to find while I explained to them the history of this tradition in America. This photo shows kids searching...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Usha and myself

    • Usha and myself
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    • This photo is of Usha, a young girl in the town who assisted me in the Nursery School, and myself. We spent many hours together as friends and teaching young children. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Fall 1966.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nursery School

    • Nursery School
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    • This is a photo of me reading "The Three Little Pigs" in English to Punjabi and Hindi speaking pre-schoolers. In our village of Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA, the community wanted an English/Pubjabi/Hindi Speaking Nursery School for their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Riding in a Bus

    • Riding in a Bus
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    • We traveled by bike almost everywhere we went. But if we had to travel more than 10 miles, we traveled by bus or train. This was a typical bus ride. There were lots of people wanting to ride the bus, so everyone got on that possible could -...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Terry and our Home

    • Terry and our Home
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    • This is a photo of Terry, my husband, outside our home in Nilokheri, Haryana, India. He is holding our dog, Ginger. Ginger was given to us by the Butalia family. They said we needed a dog to alert us to any snakes nearby. Winter 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PACA Tools at Work

    • PACA Tools at Work
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    • This photo was taken as we completed PACA Tools during CBT, in Ait Hamza, Morocco, November 2010. Here you can see the women of Cooperative Atma, a weaving cooperative, drawing their community map.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pin the Tail on the Real Donkey

    • Pin the Tail on the Real Donkey
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    • This photo was taken in Ait Hamza, Morocco, on my birthday September 23, 2010. As birthday's are not celebrated here, we thought it would be fun to have a cross-cultural exchange and so we played pin the tail on the real donkey with local children.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing with Girls of Strength

    • Dancing with Girls of Strength
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    • In a village Cameoon, fifteen girls come together once a week for youth development activities. This photo captures me teaching the girls how to dance “The Electric Slide.” The group’s name, “Bikkoy Robe Beesembe,” means “Girls of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Somewhere over the Rainbow

    • Somewhere over the Rainbow
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    • I took this photo outside my host family's house, in Tounfite, Morocco in March 2011. We live in the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains, have thunderstorms almost every afternoon, and sometimes rainbows too!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Henna Hands

    • Henna Hands
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    • This photo was taken in Ait Hamza, Morocco, on my birthday, September 23, 2010. As birthday's are not celebrated here, we had a cross-cultural exchange birthday party, which consisted of mint tea, cake, dancing and henna!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children on Trumble's rooftop

    • Children on Trumble's rooftop
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    • The only ventilation in the home was through an open hole in the roof, covered by an iron grate. The neighborhood children loved to climb up the one story to the roof and see what the Trumbles were doing in their home in Barriada San Martin de...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Teacher's Work

    • A Teacher's Work
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    • While observing the Spanish class of fellow Volunteer Andrea Derocco, I found this the perfect opportunity to take a photo of her teaching 3rd graders. On this day of September 19, 2010, she teaches to a classroom of more than 50 students.
    • Volunteer Photos

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