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    • Watching

    • Watching

    • International Women's Day; celebrations

    • For International Women's Day, the women leaders of Maroua took a day trip to Pouss to meet their Sultan and to Maga to see the fishing and rice production. I had the honor of being invited to pariticipate. Every place we stopped the villagers...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Voila!

    • Voila!

    • artisans; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); business development

    • 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
    • View from Mokhele

    • View from Mokhele

    • environment

    • This is the view from the top of Thaba Mokhele in Mohale's Hoek District in southwestern Lesotho. You are looking to the northwest along a dyke that extends from near this mountain into South Africa.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tumisi and Gary

    • Tumisi and Gary

    • counterparts

    • Early on at my site I made it a point to socialize with my colleagues. I figured if I was to spend two years of my life here, I may as well enjoy it. Tumisi was one of those guys who could make even the most dull situation joyous. This photo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tree Planting Day

    • Tree Planting Day

    • environment

    • This photo was taken in 1990 during our tree planting day. Many of these tree are now twenty feet tall or higher. The kids really felt they were doing something good for their environment.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trainees in Kazakhstan

    • Trainees in Kazakhstan

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • During PST Training, trainees went on a field trip to Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Here are a few trainees, now PCVs, at the train station in Karaganda.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Dance

    • Traditional Dance

    • dance; traditional dress

    • Traditional dancers performed for trainees in South Africa in January 2011. The dance involved women in traditional dress stomping, clapping and parading around a set of traditional drums that were providing the music for the dance.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • These Smiles Are Rare

    • These Smiles Are Rare

    • elders; markets

    • I took this photo during a large market day in Sourou, Burkina Faso on the 14th of August 2011. There are three different ethnic groups within the small village I live in and the two women captured in the photo are of the Pheul ethnicity. This...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The toughest vacation you'll ever love

    • The toughest vacation you'll ever love

    • language training; children

    • This photo was taken on the beach in Morandava, Madagascar in July, 2008. A volunteer's work is never done, but even volunteers get some vacation days. This photo was taken while I was on vacation from my site in Ambatofinandrahana. While...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Store

    • The Store

    • elders; children

    • THis photo was taken in the Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines, November 2010. I was bike riding, and I happend to see the beautiful fish for sale, so I stopped and took a look. The older lady was excited I was interested in the fish. I asked if i...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Rubbish Pit

    • The Rubbish Pit

    • environment; youth

    • In this photo, some children from Natuvu Village, Fiji, are burying rubbish. The photo was taken in 2011, during 'Natuvu Clean-up and Fun Day.' The village is rural and must manage there own rubbish, as there is no removal service available. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity

    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity

    • dance; traditional dress

    • Music and dance are part of Liberian life. In 1972 some of the people in Kolila, Liberia where I was the first Peace Corps volunteer from 1971-1973 surprised me with a visit from the Play Devil. The sounds of one musician soon called many of the...
    • Volunteer Photos

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