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    • Internet for First-Timers

    • Internet for First-Timers

    • technology; business development

    • On April 21, 2011, I took this photo of fellow PCV Peter Pakwasky during our ICT/SED cross-collaboration project. He taught first-time computer users how to use the internet, while I organized logistics. It was a great income generating activity...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching Women the Internet

    • Teaching Women the Internet

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

    • During April 2011, I organized ICT classes for members of my women’s group. First-time computer users, the Cameroonian women learnt how to use the internet and set-up e-mail accounts. It was a great income generating activity for the cyber...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PC Cameroon Celebrates the 50th!

    • PC Cameroon Celebrates the 50th!

    • traditional dress; celebrations

    • On June 29, 2011, the US Embassy of Cameroon celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps with a gathering of over 1,000 Cameroonians and Americans. Here, current PCVs wear their American-styled traditional clothing (“pagne”) in front of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Managing Women's Savings Groups

    • Managing Women's Savings Groups

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

    • This photo is of a fellow PCV, Jessica Warning, working with the President our women’s savings group while the Secretary looks on. The women of the Mbideng neighborhood in Ngaoundere, Cameroon come together once a week to save the equivalent of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Duck, Duck, Goose with Girls of Strength

    • Duck, Duck, Goose with Girls of Strength

    • youth development

    • In a village in Cameoon, fifteen girls come together once a week for youth development activities. This photo captures PCV Samatha Atkins teaching the girls “Duck, Duck, Goose.” They weren’t too impressed though as they showed us their own...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chicas Poderosas

    • Chicas Poderosas

    • celebrations; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development

    • I took this photo at a sleep over with the graduating Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Girls) group that I started in my town, Nueva Esperanza de Cano Negro, Los Chiles, Alajuela, Costa Rica. After two months the girls had completed a workbook, service...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building a Health Clinic

    • Building a Health Clinic

    • health; host community friends; construction

    • I helped my town, Nueva Esperanza, secure a grant from Pfizer Pharmeceutical. Pfizer donated all the building materials for a health clinic and sent doctors and medicine for the opening. We had to build it. The response from my town was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pre-schoolers, Lesotho

    • Pre-schoolers, Lesotho

    • children

    • If you line up 4 year olds in just about any country in the world, you get as many poses - shy, silly, naughty, thumb-suckers. In the village of Mt. Moorosi (Quthing region of LESOTHO) in April 2007, though, my little neighbor was one of the kids....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sumqayit Shore

    • Sumqayit Shore

    • culture shock and adaptation; elders

    • I took this photo our first day in our training location, Sumqayit, Azerbaijan - a suburb of the capital city of Baku, and a former Soviet industrial playground perched on the Caspian Sea. Having only arrived in country a week earlier, my husband...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Christmas dance competition LESOTHO

    • Christmas dance competition LESOTHO

    • dance; celebrations

    • A wonderful Christmas tradition in hot December LESOTHO were dance competitions, where teens of two towns competed against one another for a title of best dancers. In 2008, these teens in Ha Makebe, not too far from the capital city of Maseru, had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Lifestyle Personified

    • A Lifestyle Personified

    • Environment

    • This photo was taken in a mountain village in Azerbaijan in the summer of 2011. The landscape, harsh and unyielding, personifies the lives of those in its midst. The mystery and beauty of the place personify the culture in itself.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Madeline dances with kids, Lesotho

    • Madeline dances with kids, Lesotho

    • host community friends; children

    • In November of 2007, in our training village in Lesotho, I happened upon kids on a path, who wanted to dance. Kids live in the present, so now's as good a time for any to dance. I like this photo because in my three years as a Peace Corps...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Two worlds apart

    • Two worlds apart

    • host community friends; traditional dress

    • I took this photo of my wife, PCV Melinda Bothe, at a Masai celebration. My wife and I both serve as science teachers in Kibaya, Tanzania. Our site as many different ethnic traditional cultures with the Masai being the most popular. Having of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • An Unexpected Language Lesson

    • An Unexpected Language Lesson

    • Language training; Host families

    • I took this photo in our host home during our Pre-Service Training period in Azerbaijan. My husband and I had just bought a few books in Azeri to send home to nieces and nephews. When we sat down at the table to try to translate the books into...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Apple Car

    • The Apple Car

    • markets; transportation

    • In Azerbaijan, it is common for produce...furniture...sheep...you name it, to be sold from the backseat of a Soviet-style Lada. This one happened to be a regular on our street and was most often full of apples. Stationed between the dentist office...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Class 1 sits on paint cans

    • Class 1 sits on paint cans

    • schools; children

    • I snapped this photo of first graders sitting on paint cans in Masia Primary School, Tsatsane Valley of Quthing Region, Lesotho, as I traveled as an Education Volunteer in April 2007, doing teacher observations. Their cute smiles show they are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Three ladies Basotho blankets

    • Three ladies Basotho blankets

    • traditional dress

    • In Lesotho, the village paths on Sundays are lined with ladies walking to church, all with traditional Basotho blankets (mofu) over their shoulders. Each blanket pattern has a name, linked to symbols of tribes or crops. The center blanket...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Masai Cheif

    • Masai Cheif

    • traditional dress; celebrations

    • This photo was taken at a Masai celebration and is of the village cheif with his family members. The cheif the the village was excited that I had brought my camera to the event. He asked me if I could take pictures of him with his family. I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Face painting anyone?

    • Face painting anyone?

    • traditional dress; celebrations

    • This photo was taken at a Masai celebration right outside Kibaya, Tanzania. My wife and I were invited to attend a Masia celebration were we got to real get up close and personal with everyone there. This photo is of the warriers (as they call...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 3 of a kind

    • 3 of a kind

    • traditional dress; celebrations

    • This photo is taken of my wife, PCV Melinda, a 15 year old Masai boy, and myself. My wife and I are at a Masai celebration. We were invited to this celebration from our Masai friend. The boy in the picture was very timid and didn't say a word. ...
    • Volunteer Photos

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