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- Enjoying the afternoon with Alphonse and his family.
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This is a photo of myself and some of my favorite people in Meri, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon! This picture was taken in 2010 at my friend/coworker, Alphonse’s house. He was the most honest, kind and hard working person I was... - Volunteer Photos
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- Natural Design
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Photo taken while visiting "Las Cajas" National Park near Cuenca, Ecuador. This highland paramo is almost always wet and the vegetation is truly one-of-a-kind in terms of it's surreal presentation. - Volunteer Photos
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- Helping pound millet in Meri, Cameroon.
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This picture was taken outside of my village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon. My friend Abel and I went to visit his sister who lived en brosse, in the bush, in a very small community. I helped his sister piler, pound, millet and... - Volunteer Photos
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- Aissatou roasting marshmallows in Meri, Cameroon.
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My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, in the North Region of Cameroon, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make... - Volunteer Photos
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- An enthusiastic welcome home from my host sister.
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This is a picture of one of the sisters of my host family, where I stayed during Pre-Service Training, outside of Garoua, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon. I was always welcomed back to the house after a long day of training with the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Peace Corps Quito Office - Finest Volunteers - Ecuador
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Myself in the Quito/Ecuador Central Office next to Sign noting that Ecuador has the finest Volunteers. - Volunteer Photos
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- Twice Daily Bus from Cahuasqui to Ibarra,, Imbabura Province, Ecuador (1975)
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This was one of the buses that left twice daily from the central plaza in Cahuasqui at 5:30AM and 5:30PM (my assigned site) and traversed the old Inca Road to the town of Ibarra - a 50 km journey along one-way roads with steep drop-offs that... - Volunteer Photos
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- Working in the Soy Field in Meri, Cameroon
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While serving in the village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in Village. To pass the time while we worked, the women would teach... - Volunteer Photos
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- Looking Away
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A young Zambian watched as I took photographs of the various surroundings of village life. When I turned and pointed my lens his way, he quickly turned away, pretending he had never been looking at me. His posture and serious face in front of... - Volunteer Photos
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- Voila!
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I met Chantal in a neighboring village and due to our shared connection in the arts, I focused some of my work as a small business development PCV on promoting her and her craft. When I met her she only dyed and sold the printed batik cloth she... - Volunteer Photos
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This photo is taken from a 3 day long health related camp a volunteer, Dara Lipton (seen in background wearing Angel wings) organized around Halloween. She used her fellow Volunteers and the American holiday to promote the 1st and 2nd Goals of the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Girl in Blue
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A girl in Mexico paused to look at me for a moment while watching a performance at a Caravan de Cultura near the mercado where her mother works. I was enchanted by her posture, intense gaze, and the colors of her turquoise blue dress and silver... - Volunteer Photos
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- Girl in Meat Market
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A young girl enjoyed an ice cream cone in the doorway of a carniceria, or meat market, in Mexico while waiting for her mother. I took this photo during a break from a Caravan de Cultura, where the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and... - Volunteer Photos
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- Meeting in the middle
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A man on stilts bends down to hand a flier to a girl as her father lifts her up to reach it. The stilt walker was promoting a nearby circus on a Sunday afternoon in the Plaza de Armes in Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico, home of Peace Corps Mexico... - Volunteer Photos
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- Hokey Pokey
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This images is of my fellow PCV and children in our host village of Agou, Togo in the summer of 2007. While on break during our first weeks of training, we joined in teaching the children one of our favorite pastime games, the Hokey Pokey. - Volunteer Photos
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- Cientificos de la Futura (Scientists of the Future)
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These students are creating paper models of the planet Mars, one of the crafts offered by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) to introduce children to astronomy concepts. INAOE, where I am assigned in the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Honoring My Village Grams, One Year Later
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The image was taken during my return visit to my village of Adeta, Togo one year after my service ended. I was so happy to be able to share a tribute to the woman who became my village grandma. I presented her with a photo of the exhibit that... - Volunteer Photos
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- Puru Blaka
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This is an Ingi Puru Blaka, a traditional ceremony taking place in my village, Redi Doti, in Resortt Caroline, Para District, Suriname. The idea behind this ceremony is that while a family is in mourning following the death of a loved one, they... - Volunteer Photos
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- Seeing Red
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This young girl lives on my street in Maroua. She never smiles. One day I took out my camera and tried to get her to smile. The only time she smiled was after I took the photo and showed her the digital image of herself on the back of the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Blue skies
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A storm is coming across the fields in Adeta, Togo in July 2009 during my work with a partnering NGO to construct a community center dedicated to promoting creativity in the youth. The main door to the center remains sheltered as it awaits the... - Volunteer Photos
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