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    • Where are we?

    • Where are we?

    • World map project; children

    • Students from the local school in Piedra Alegre de Pital in Costa Rica show their country's location on a recently completed world map they helped create in the summer of 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where in the World?

    • Where in the World?

    • Animals; Terrain

    • When I saw this view I thought of France and Camille Corot's landscape paintings of France. But no, this scene was real in Thailand. I had just moved to my permanent site in March and took this picture April 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Window to the Future

    • Window to the Future

    • Schools; Education; Children

    • At the teacher training session for the k5 trainees in Cambodia, a class full of mostly college English students listen to suggestions by Peace Corps trainees on how they might better their English teaching in the classroom.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working during the harvest in Meri, Cameroon.

    • Working during the harvest in Meri, Cameroon.

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture; Traditional dress

    • While serving in the village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region in Cameroon, I started a women’s soy farming group. The group consisted of some of the most dynamic women I knew in Village. To pass the time while we worked, they would teach me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working on our Balance

    • Working on our Balance

    • Camps and clubs; Children; Health

    • Isabel works on the parallel bars to improve her balance during occupational therapy. Her peers cheer her on. About 30-40 children with multiple disabilities lived at the children's section of the Julio Endara M. Hospital near Quito, Ecuador. Some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map 1

    • World Map 1

    • World map project; Teachers and students

    • This picture includes a volunteer and kids painting a world map on the library in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map 2

    • World Map 2

    • World map project; Teachers and students

    • This picture has a volunteer and kids working on a world map in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
    • 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
    • Yoga in Pilatovets

    • Yoga in Pilatovets

    • Sports; Children; Volunteers

    • On August 18th, 2011, the second day of a summer camp in Bulgaria, I led a yoga class. The picture shows me, second from the left, and a group of girls, ages 8-12, in the Warrior I pose. Women and girls were very interested in fitness. As an after...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • You Don't Have to Be a Dentist to Find Cavities

    • You Don't Have to Be a Dentist to Find Cavities

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Children

    • The children in my village have taken me in at their big sister, calling me "kakak" rather than my actual name. It's heartwarming. They love to take me to the sugarcane fields that surround our village. They run with knifes, and it makes me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young girl

    • Young girl

    • Children; Host families

    • This is a photo of a young girl posing for the camera. The photo was taken (using color accent) at a friend's house in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana on December 25, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Traditional dress; Children

    • This little girl is one of my neighbors and she is the loudest little girl. She will see me coming from a mile away and scream my name as loud as she can before running over and chatting non-stop in the local language, Kiborana. On this day in June...
    • Volunteer Photos

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