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.
Harmon begins a forty mile trek to visit his students' family and village. The photo show Harmon talking a passing stranger while his students wait in the background.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitos and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked and...
This photo was taken in September 1990 outside Bandipur, Nepal. This photo was taken at about 4500-5000 ft of elevation. In Nepal, you don't ask people where they live. You ask "how high" their village is. Elevation is the main thing that dictates...
This photo was taken in March 2008 in Santa Rosa, Paraguay at a regional youth leadership camp. The camp was held during one day where youth, ages 13-21 came to be empowered to become leaders. They learned skills, such as this one, which focused...
Not only one of the Rolling Stones greatest hits, but great subjects for this photo. this was taken in 1990 on a hike with a road engineer named Jeff. It was without a doubt the coldest hike I have ever been on in my life.
While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, wildfire awareness and prevention was incorporated into my Disaster Mitigation project. Community rescue brigades were instructed how to eliminate fire hazards from their...
While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, wildfire awareness and prevention was incorporated into my Disaster Mitigation project. Community rescue brigades were instructed how to eliminate fire hazards from their...
While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, wildfire awareness and prevention was incorporated into my Disaster Mitigation project. Community rescue brigades were instructed how to eliminate fire hazards from their...
While working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in El Salvador in 2007, I was assisting a Salvadoran NGO in first aid instruction to rural community rescue brigades. During one such demonstration word came from another community further up the...