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    • A Moment of Grace

    • A Moment of Grace

    • Environment; Terrain; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • West Coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers…10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up at 5:00am; asked...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • All together

    • All together

    • Health; Construction; Host community

    • I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students in Elkassaba El Khir, Tata, Morocco. On June 2011 a lot of volunteers came out to work on the bathrooms. It was such an amazing feat that children stayed after...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 1)

    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 1)

    • Construction

    • Inauguration Day, August 15, 1965 of the Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador. The 407- ft pedestrian suspension bridge over the Zamora River in the Amazonian rain forest was completed in 11 months with local volunteer labor, steel cable funded by the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 2)

    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 2)

    • Construction

    • PCVs Walter (volunteer stationed at Zumbi), Jim (Civil Engineer & bridge designer), and Dick (Mechanical Engineer) with some of the local people, who built the Alliance Bridge, on Inauguration Day, August 15, 1965. The 407-ft pedestrian suspension...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 3)

    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 3)

    • Construction

    • PCVs Dick (Mechanical Engineer), Jim (Civil Engineer & bridge designer), and Walter (volunteer stationed at Zumbi & project organizer) at the inauguration of the Alliance Bridge on August 15, 1965. The 407-ft suspension bridge over the Zamora River...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 4)

    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 4)

    • construction

    • Photo taken on August 15, 1965 of the commemorative marble plaque mounted on the north tower of the Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador and engraved with the words: Alliance for Progress Bridge, built by the inhabitants of Upper Nanguipa, Lower...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 5)

    • Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador (No. 5)

    • Construction

    • Photo taken on August 15, 1965 right before the inauguration of the Alliance Bridge at Zumbi, Ecuador and showing PCVs Dick and Walter (sitting on platform) installing sign on south tower which says: ALLIANCE BRIDGE - CROSS WITH CARE - MAXIMUM...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Almost There

    • Almost There

    • Environment; Water and sanitation; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • A village on the west Coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the Beach

    • At the Beach

    • Children; Terrain; Environment

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Black Sea Ice

    • Black Sea Ice

    • environment

    • A man rides his moped over the Black Sea during February when part of the bay of Karkinits'ka Zatoka is completely frozen over.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bushmen Couple At Work

    • Bushmen Couple At Work

    • Artisans; Community development; Housing

    • 1985 Village of Shakawe, Botswana, Africa. These people are called Bushmen or Hottentots. The man is crafting poison tipped arrows. The women is boring holes in ostrich egg fragments to use as beads. This is a very remote village best known for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children's Day

    • Children's Day

    • Children; Resiliency; Education

    • This photo was taken during a Children's Day (Día del Niño) celebration at the Escuela Básica Paraguay - Japón in La Colmena, Paraguay, South America. La Colmena was the first Japanese colony in Paraguay, and the children in this school...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Craft Day at the Library

    • Craft Day at the Library

    • Artisans; Children; Community development

    • A fellow PCV, Jack, and I returned to visit our sites in June, 2004. We held a craft day for the children at the library, which included shield painting, bead stringing, face painting and making Ndebele dolls. The library was part of Jack's site,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Descending Babushka

    • Descending Babushka

    • elders

    • A typical Ukrainian Babushka descends stairs from a cave monastery in Backchissaray, a Crimean Tatar city in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Oblast of Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dominican Morning

    • Dominican Morning

    • housing; host community friends

    • This photograph was taken during technical training in the small community of La Cumbre, Dominican Republic in 2008. A group of volunteers woke up early to embark on a hike with a host brother through the Dominican forest. This young boy was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Down in the dirt

    • Down in the dirt

    • Agriculture; Education

    • This photo was taken during PST by Rebecca. The photo is of PCV Sarah working with primary school students from Kilulu Primary School during a hands on lesson about permaculture. Rebecca and Sarah studied culture and Swahili together in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fighting over Fish

    • Fighting over Fish

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

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos

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