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    • Pin the Tail on the Real Donkey

    • Pin the Tail on the Real Donkey

    • children; animals; games

    • 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
    • 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....
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    • Raising Chickens

    • Raising Chickens

    • agriculture; animals

    • 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.
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    • Riding in a Bus

    • Riding in a Bus

    • transportation

    • 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
    • Snowman in South Africa!

    • 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
    • Somewhere over the Rainbow

    • Somewhere over the Rainbow

    • environment

    • 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
    • Students at Orphanage Camp Learning English

    • 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
    • Students Teaching Each Others

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Terry and our Home

    • Terry and our Home

    • volunteers; animals

    • 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
    • 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...
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    • 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
    • To The Sky

    • 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
    • Traditional Dominican Farmer

    • 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
    • Trask Pick-up

    • 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.
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    • 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
    • Usha and myself

    • Usha and myself

    • host community friends; schools

    • 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.
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    • Vegetable Garden

    • Vegetable Garden

    • food and meals; agriculture

    • 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
    • Woman's Association

    • 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.
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