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    • Easter Lamb

    • Easter Lamb

    • food and meals; host community friends

    • It was as if I became an instant part of every family in my town. I first met this lady when the owner of the local veterinary pharmacy took me home with her to try the fat they had rendered from their hog, which she spread on a big piece of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ecological Field Study

    • Ecological Field Study

    • environment; teachers and students

    • My Form C Science class in 1989. We went to the top of Thaba Tsoeu on a Saturday morning with our homemade one meter square and placed it in random locations. We then counted all the flora and fauna in that area. It was really great of those...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Elmo Goes on Holiday in South Africa

    • Elmo Goes on Holiday in South Africa

    • children; host community friends

    • This photo is of my five-year-old neighbor Lindi in Mzinti, South Africa from November 8, 2010. Lindi is holding a recently donated Elmo doll from the United States. She supports it alongside her back with a tied cloth in the same manner that rural...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • End of School Year Production

    • End of School Year Production

    • youth; music

    • Liberian students loved to sing, dance and prepare the sets and props for the end of the school year production which took place in December. I rewrote songs with lyrics more meaningful to my 4th, 5th and 6th grade students - like 'This Land is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family

    • Family

    • host families; children

    • I took this photo in March 2011. I love this picture because it portrays so much of what I love about Peace Corps: my relationship with my host family. I spend many afternoons laughing with Gogo, and teaching English to and playing with the small...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family

    • Family

    • death; health; disease

    • In 2011 a well known young male from Kato became ill. He left his family in high hopes and headed to work in town. Unfortunately for his family he never returned. His family and community mourn the loss of a cherished one because of Malaria.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family Time in the Milpa

    • Family Time in the Milpa

    • food and meals; elders

    • The people seen here are part of large farming family from a small pueblito in Mexico. They go out together to their milpa in the country every Sunday to do whatever is needed to raise maize, peppers, beans, squash, and marigolds (for religious...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Feast Preparation

    • Feast Preparation

    • food and meals; counterparts

    • This photo was taken in November of 1989 before our Completer's Farewell mokete. Some of the women preparing food were my colleagues.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fijian War Meke

    • Fijian War Meke

    • dance; traditional dress

    • This photo was taken in July 2010 with members of my host village in Natuvu, Fiji. We are performing a Fijian War Meke (dance) with a wau (club). It was done during in the past before the men went off to war with another tribe. If you look...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Day Fans!

    • First Day Fans!

    • schools; children

    • This was taken on September 5th, 2011 on the first day of school in Guyana. I spent the day with the Department of Education making sure schools were ready, had their lesson plans and attendance records in order, and checking to see if any repairs...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First National English Teachers Symposium

    • First National English Teachers Symposium

    • teachers and students

    • This photo was taken on 5/29/2008 in the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, during the first national English teachers symposium. It shows my wife and I and two of the English teachers from our rural village of Ambatofinandrahana. We nominated...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fulani Wrestling Match

    • Fulani Wrestling Match

    • sports; celebrations; host community friends

    • I took this image during a welcome ceremony in a fellow PVC's northern village in Togo. All the community members in his village held activities that displayed the traditions of Togolese. The ceremony opened up with a traditional Fulani wrestling...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Full Load

    • Full Load

    • agriculture; children; host community friends

    • I took this photo on June 1, 2011 in the very small village I live in called Sourou, Burkina Faso. My neighbor was going out to the fields to plant crops in preparation to the rainy season. During this season the village seems like a ghost town...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Galletas

    • Galletas

    • food and meals; host families

    • Here I am, again, on August 17th 2011 with my host sister, Jenifer, in her parents' kitchen baking oatmeal raisin cookies - an American favorite. We thoroughly enjoyed learning together how to cook cookies over a flame in their Panamanian stove.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Game Time

    • Game Time

    • youth development; games

    • I helped lead an English leadership summer camp at a school in L'viv. Here I was explaining a game, and the kids were excited to get started. I believe the game happening in this picture was "Giants, Wizards, & Elves."
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Garden Fun

    • Garden Fun

    • environment; youth; agriculture

    • I took this photo at my neighbors house in May 2010. It shows a group of kids in La Montana, Osicala, Morazan, El Salvador making an Organic Compost to use for a home garden. We are promoting recycling through organic materials as well as...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Genie Info Diplomes - Mention Tres Bien

    • Genie Info Diplomes - Mention Tres Bien

    • education

    • I took this photo at the graduation ceremony at the Institut Superieur de Technologie de Mamou, on July 20, 2011. This was the 3rd graduation ceremony for the IST, which was founded in 2005 as Guinea's national polytechnic university. The 2...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girl in Blue

    • Girl in Blue

    • children

    • 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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