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    • Proud Student

    • Proud Student

    • Education; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • 1987 Shoshong Secondary School, Botswana, Africa. Woodworking student admiring his project before turning it in.
    • 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
    • Tokeras

    • Tokeras

    • Host families; Traditional dress

    • In Senegal West Africa, it is important to have a namesake; someone you are named after or someone who is named after you. You have a special bond with this person and they are like part of your family. In the Pulaar language, this is called...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Jump for Morocco

    • Jump for Morocco

    • Volunteers; terrain

    • We, new Peace Corps Volunteers, were traveling up to our CBT Hub and took a little break. This picture represents our growing excitement and aw at the breath taking view of the hills in the background.
    • 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
    • Waiting on mom

    • Waiting on mom

    • Children; Community development

    • This picture was taken right outside the health clinic where I teach women health lessons. Some of the children were waiting on their mom while she talked to the nurse and listened to one of my health lessons.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning through murals

    • Learning through murals

    • Art; World Map Project; Volunteers

    • Mari, a YD volunteer, created a cross sector project for her Dar cheebub (youth activity center) with the assistance of health volunteers and other YD volunteers. The project was to paint murals representing AIDS, world peace, Moroccan pride,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laugh a little

    • Laugh a little

    • Construction; Community development

    • I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. Here are a few of the volunteers in May 2011. Amazingly, 11 volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching on

    • Watching on

    • Host community; Education

    • A bunch of kids from school were watching the Moroccan men (all volunteers) work on the elementary's school's new bathroom (June 2011) in Elkassaba El Khir, Tata, Morocco.
    • 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
    • Volunteer with Village Children, Ataa, Malaita

    • Volunteer with Village Children, Ataa, Malaita

    • children; host community friends; schools

    • This picture is of me and village children (mostly primary school students) in Ataa, Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. Ataa is in north / east Malaita and is accessible only by canoe. I took this picture during a holiday during a Nov 1993 visit ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Kid is Kind and The Sun is Bright

    • The Kid is Kind and The Sun is Bright

    • youth

    • I was cutting down a new soccer field with some guys from my village. They told me to go grab my camera and take a few shots. The first person I saw when I got back was this boy named Richardo. He turned his head, sun blazing upon his gaze, and I...
    • Volunteer Photos

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