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    • A Final Lesson

    • A Final Lesson
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    • I took this on my last day at site. I decided to grab a cup of tea and wait out the rain inside of the new general store that my health center built. The mamas were discussing how big the little boy was and what he had been fed to get that way. My...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Moroccan Earth Day Celebration

    • A Moroccan Earth Day Celebration
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    • I took this photo on March 22nd, 2011 during an Earth Day celebration with the women of the cooperative I was working with as well as many of the communities' children. We picked up trash from a local creek, discussed waste management options and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Mozambican in South Africa

    • A Mozambican in South Africa
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    • A Mozambican migrant waits in line on September 3, 2010 at the organization that I work for in order to register for identity documents. In South Africa there are a large number of mobile and undocumented persons, which has implications on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A wai and a smile

    • A wai and a smile
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    • This photo was taken on January 5, 2011 of three young girls who are about four years old. It is Children's Day in Thailand, where all over the country communities organize fun activities for the children and their families. These three girls are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Above the Horizon

    • Above the Horizon
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    • On August 23, 2011, a girl plays a game in which you must leap and successfully get your feet over an elastic string. Two children were holding the ends of the string and moved it higher and higher with each jump. Orphans and vulnerable children...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Another One Shaved

    • Another One Shaved
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    • Barb gets her hair trimmed to a buzz one night in February 2011 in South Africa. Shavings became a nightly ritual for trainees during the first week in-country. In the background, from left to right, are Lanna, Stephanie Martone, and Shaelyn.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Apple Pie

    • Apple Pie
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    • This photo was taken of Sarah, an environmental education PCV in Senegal, while she teaches middles school girls how to make apple pie during the food cultural exchange session of our girls' leadership camp July 2011 in Ndioum, Senegal.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Appreciate Our Modern Conveniences

    • Appreciate Our Modern Conveniences
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    • I wanted to bring home how much we take for granted. In Kolila, Liberia where I was the first Peace Corps Volunteer from 1971 to 1973 I learned that every one of my students (about 20 4th, 5th, and 6th graders) all had to wash their own laundry -...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Art and Culture

    • Art and Culture
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    • This photo was taken January 29, 2011 during a meeting with the first Artesan Youth Group of La Montana, Osical, Morazan, El Salvador. The kids are meeting to learn how to tie-dye shirts that will be sold to promote the culture of the community and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Balafon at the Cinquantenaire

    • Balafon at the Cinquantenaire
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    • I took this photo at Peace Corps Guinea's 50th Anniversary celebration in Conakry, Guinea, on April 21, 2011. The performers are from a new primary school established by UNICEF in Dubreka to maintain the cultural traditions of music, dance &...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Beekeeping

    • Beekeeping
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    • I was inspecting my beehives in Macuelizo, Santa Barbara, Honduras when the sisters Dina and Senovia offered to help (1981).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Blue skies

    • 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
    • Boda Parade

    • Boda Parade
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    • 15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding (boda) in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitas and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

    • Camp GLOW in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan
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    • This is a photo of our group of girls in Chalkar, Kazakhstan. This Camp GLOW was the fourth of four Camp GLOWs that took place throughout Kazakhstan in the summer of 2011. There were 30 participants at the 5 day/6 night sleepaway camp. It was an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candy Colored Paint Buckets

    • Candy Colored Paint Buckets
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    • This photo is of Peace Corps Volunteer, Kathlyn Paananen on July 7, 2011. The volunteer organized a playground design-build skills training, in which community volunteers built playground equipment for five different Child Community Development...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carolina Boats

    • Carolina Boats
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    • Boats resting on the sandy banks of the Suriname river when the tide is out. I took the photo one a journey back to my village of Redi Doti (About 2 kilometers down river and 2 kilometers into the jungle) as I waited for a Ferry Boat to take me...
    • Volunteer Photos

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