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    • Matthew and the keyboard

    • Matthew and the keyboard

    • technology; education

    • I took this photo on September 6th, 2011 in the newly completed computer lab at Ramotshinyadi HIV/AIDS Youth Guide in South Africa. This was the first computer class in the lab, and was provided to seven local youths, most of whom had never used a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning Host Country Traditions

    • Learning Host Country Traditions

    • host families

    • This photo was taken in my host family's kitchen, where I helped my host mom and sisters make "compot," a traditional Moldovan drink made with water, sugar and fruit picked from the family's garden. All summer long, Moldovans work to preserve food...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picking Cherries

    • Picking Cherries

    • Host families; gardens

    • This photo was taken in my host family's garden in Moldova, where I helped my host sister pick cherries this summer. My petite host sister climbed far up into the tree to reach the cherries still left at the very top, and then tossed them down,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Call On Me

    • Call On Me

    • Pre-service Training (PST); education

    • This photo was taken on April 19, 2010 at SMAN 2 Batu High School in East Java, Indonesia. I took this picture of my friends Travis and Giovanna during our Pre-Service Training teaching practicum. The students really enjoyed their English lesson...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Road Ahead

    • The Road Ahead

    • housing

    • I took this photo on my site visit during training, when we visit our partner organizations and stay with our host families at our permanent site for the first time. It's the road to my new home. It's rocky, it's got rough edges, and you can't...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Mural at Radu Recreation Center

    • Student Mural at Radu Recreation Center

    • youth development; art

    • Students are working with a local entrepreneur in Moldova to convert one floor in her building into a youth recreation center. One of their projects is to paint a mural of images and words that are important or have special meaning to the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • This photo was taken on May 21, 2010 in East Java, Indonesia during Pre-Service Training. We did the world map project in the village community center. The little kids in the village loved to help paint!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What Women Do

    • What Women Do

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This photo was taken on May 27, 2010 in Pandanrejo village, East Java, Indonesa. I took this photo of Angela, PCV and Ibu Eka a language and culture facilitator during Pre-Service Training. We were conducting a PACA tool event in the village...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tea Time in Mali

    • Tea Time in Mali

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken March 2011 during my pre-service training homestay, in a village about 1 hour outside of Bamako, Mali. My host brother, Madou, was spinning the tea fourneau to activate the coals to make tea. Tea is a major part of the Malian...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Arzantiiga

    • Arzantiiga

    • elders; agriculture

    • Family heads and local chiefs take a break from a moringa presentation and demonstration to pose with PCV Christy Ross in front of her house in Silmidougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop in July of 2009 marked the beginning of a several secondary...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • English Club

    • English Club

    • education;

    • I took this photo at the end of an English club with young learners during the spring 2011 semester. We studied sea and beach vocabulary (because we live by the sea) by drawing pictures on the blackboard and labeling them in both Russian and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • agriculture; fishing

    • For the Inland Fisheries Program in Sierra Leone, training took place at Makali Fish Station. A site was selected by the earlier group of fisheries volunteers and a pond was built by those volunteers and trainees and local residents of the country.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • JFK's Inaugural Speech

    • JFK's Inaugural Speech

    • teachers and students; Kennedy, John F.

    • This photo was taken during one of my 4th-year classes (Seniors) on September 6th, 2011 at Hilongos National Vocational School in Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines. Our lesson for the day, from our Philippines' DepED English Expressways textbook, was to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creative Sports

    • Creative Sports

    • sports; youth

    • Volunteers play American football with a soccer ball with local youth. It was the first time the kids had played American football.
    • Volunteer Photos

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