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- Environmental Trash Pick-up
- youth; environment
- Despite of the rain, the students’ eager to collected as much trash as they could in order to help promote a cleaner environment and raise environmental awareness throughout the community of Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco. This photo shows the students...
- Volunteer Photos
- Students Teaching Each Others
- youth; environment
- After an environmental trash pick-up activity and lesson in Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, we’ve divided the students in groups and asked them to present what they have learned from the activity and how they envision a healthy environment to be.
- Volunteer Photos
- Trask Pick-up
- youth; environment
- Zakaria placed the collected trashes into the garbage can from an environmental trash pick-up activity in Ait Ben Haddou. This activity enhances the youth awareness and helps promote a cleaner and healthier environment.
- Volunteer Photos
- Art and Craft Activity
- youth; environment
- After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
- Volunteer Photos
- Art and Craft Activity
- youth; environment
- After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
- Volunteer Photos
- Students at Orphanage Camp Learning English
- youth; education
- Eager to learn, level three students at an orphanage camp in Rabat are writing their daily lesson. They are excited to learn what I was going to teach them next. These young minds are full of questions about proper ways of writing and speaking...
- Volunteer Photos
- Full of Excitement
- youth; education
- The students at Imlil Primary School are full of excitement and anticipation of all the activities and gifts provided by the Casablanca’s Rotary Club.
- Volunteer Photos
- Latin Locks of Love
- youth;
- I took this photo July 19, 2011 in Ecuador. After school, this 12 year old girl and her mother visited their local hair salon and chopped off more than 12" each. They had been planning to donate their hair for months - the little girl had seen an...
- Volunteer Photos
- Familia
- children; Host families
- It was on my site visit, seeing for the first time the town of that would be my home for the next two years back in August 2009 while I was sitting and chatting with my host familia and neighbors. My neighbors' were holding their friends' baby in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Snowman in South Africa!
- youth; environment
- We had a "snow day" in the Eastern Cape, the first time the locals have ever seen that much snow. So I rounded up a few of the local kids and taught them how to build a snowman. Later we had a snowball fight and we tried to make one giant snow...
- Volunteer Photos
- Children of Samoa
- youth
- Village children on the island of Savaii, Samoa.
- Volunteer Photos
- 2007 Thank You Joy!
- Swearing-in ceremonies
- I took this photo of Joy during a swearing in ceremony for Group 78. She was a beloved member of the Peace Corps Jamaica Staff for 35 years. Peace Corps lost her in August of 2011 following an illness. She was, indeed, a joy for the hundreds of...
- Volunteer Photos
- My Peace Corps home, the island of Savaii, Samoa
- environment
- The photo is the the ferry as it approaches the island of Savaii, Samoa, where I was posted 2007-2009. For me the photo captures the allure of living in the South Pacific.
- Volunteer Photos
- Creation
- environment
- South Sea sunsets are great, but the sun rises are spectacular as the rising sun hits the various layers of clouds. There is no better way to start your day than to witness a sun rise like this. Picture taken from the Village of Iva on the island...
- Volunteer Photos
- Draft Board
- children; games; Host families
- This photo was taken in 2010 at my hut in Fimpulu Village, Luapula Province, Zambia. Using spray paint, I made a "draft board" on my porch for the children to play on. Draft is a game similar to Checkers and is seen being played throughout Zambia.
- Volunteer Photos
- To The Sky
- children; climate
- This photo was taken in April 2010 on the Cheif's palace island on the Zambezi Floodplains in Mongu, Western Province, Zambia. Traditionally, around Easter each year, the Paramount Chief of the Lozi tribe travels from his palace residence on his...
- Volunteer Photos
- Children of the Batey
- youth
- The Bateyes, or Haitian migrant sugarcane-camps, are culturally isolated and the most impoverished communities within the Dominican Republic. In this photograph, four batey children play with an improvised toy while they run through the smoke...
- Volunteer Photos
- Woman's Association
- Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
- Some woman attending a workshop in Kaala Saraghna, posing in front of 'Hotel Kaala' before lunch, Association Amal Developement, July.
- Volunteer Photos
- Daily Routine
- water and sanitation; host community friends
- Woman from the douar, Ouargui shows me how to fill a water pouch during the morning, part of daily routine.
- Volunteer Photos
- Traditional Dominican Farmer
- host community friends; animals
- This photograph was taken in the mountains of the Dminican Republic where my husband and I served two years working on an organic pesticide project for coffee growers. In this photograph is our host brother, Iselso Marmol, who was a traditonal...
- Volunteer Photos