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- A Camel's Kiss
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Animals; Traditional dress -
This picture was taken at one of the New Seven Wonders of the World and Jordan's most popular tourist spot: Petra. 4 volunteers met up for a little excursion out of site. I was walking around Petra on the hot day, and decided to take a picture with... - Volunteer Photos
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- Circle Frame
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This photograph was taken during our Initial Orientation, in May 2009, immediately after we arrived in country. One of my best friends, Kay, is holding the stick frame and featuring the other volunteers as we all prepared for a hike up the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Show and Tell!
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Schools; Education; Children; Host community -
This photo was taken in my second site, the town of Etropole, in the spring of 2011. It was taken at school with my eighth grade class, when I was learning more about how to interest the students in English lessons by incorporating their personal... - Volunteer Photos
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- The new sign
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Artisans; Volunteers -
PCVs Sharon Keld and Brian Kremer present a sign to the Azrou rug cooperative president, Azrou, Morocco. Also in the picture is a metal artisan at the Azrou Ensemble Artisanal. - Volunteer Photos
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- The meeting
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Counterparts; Volunteers; Business Development -
Khadija, treasurer of the Ain Leuh cooperative in Morocco, with PCV Sharon Keld. October 2008 - Volunteer Photos
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- My New Home
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Environment; Rural sites -
Date of photo: 8-10-10; This photo was taken during site visit in China. It was the first time I would see my new town. The weather was a miserable 106 degrees and I was feeling frustrated because I hadn't yet mastered the language, however, when I... - Volunteer Photos
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- Happy Kids Healthy School
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Health; Volunteers; children; education -
As a Healthy Schools Volunteer in Guatemala, I am in charge of implementing this program in 35 different schools. My job is to train all the school principles and teachers in what types of health lessons to teach the children and also how to write... - Volunteer Photos
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- Air Guitar Girls!
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Host community friends -
This photo was taken in my first village, a small Bulgarian Muslim community in northeastern Bulgaria. I was playing in my yard one day with three of my girls, and we just enjoyed one another's company through games, eating apples, and air... - Volunteer Photos
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- Vaccination campaign in Cinkasse
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Maternal and child health; Health; Host community -
November 29, 2010. A mother holds tight as her baby receives an MMR vaccination during a campaign. You can see the nurse's hands. Many children came to the campaign with incomplete vaccination records. - Volunteer Photos
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- Morning walk
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Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress -
My friend, Volunteer Lizzy, spends a few minutes with her friends before taking a bus to travel south to Lome. - Volunteer Photos
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- Celebration!
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Host community friends; Food and meals; Celebrations -
This photograph was taken in November of 2009, in my first village, a small Bulgarian Muslim community in northeastern Bulgaria. Kurban Bairam is one of the greatest holidays of the year in the Muslim community, and as I was learning about their... - Volunteer Photos
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- Me a happy PCV
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This is me being very happy to be a PCV during the 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps! This was taken March 2011, at the house of the US Ambassador to Guatemala, Steve McFarland. - Volunteer Photos
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- Guests in class!
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Schools; Education; Children; Host community -
This photo was taken in the summer of 2011, when my mother (pictured on the left), and my friend Katya and her husband Patrick (pictured on the right) came to visit me in my second site, a municipality located in the Old Mountains, just to the east... - Volunteer Photos
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- On a gagne Pagui!
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Games; Children; Resiliency -
This photo is of a team building activity during the week of Camp UNITE. The team of seven girls must work together to cross the "dangerous waters" to find food and save their village. Pagui is the intimidating figure with the tail to the right... - Volunteer Photos
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- I know it! I know it!
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Schools; Children; Education -
September 2010. My friend PCV Katrina leads a session at a Camp she helped organize in her village Nadjoundi. Thirty girls from her village attended the three-day camp just before the beginning of the school year, to promote the importance of... - Volunteer Photos
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- Club Espoir
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Schools; Children; Education -
March 2011. My friend PCV Christy sits with the children at Club Espoir in Dapaong, northern Togo. At the time we were listening to the opening comments from one of the organizers. Club Espoir (Club Hope) is organized by PCVs and Dapaong's... - Volunteer Photos
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- The Tea Seller
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Traditional dress; Food and meals; children -
Tea is as important a drink in Turkey as is coffee. When visiting with Turkish friends, they always offered tea first. Later coffee, more expensive and more time consuming to make, would be offered. I was always amazed at how this young boy could... - Volunteer Photos
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- Market Storm
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Agriculture; Host community; Transportation -
This image was taken as I rushed home during my Monday market, hoping to avoid the rains. During the rainy season in my village in Togo every Monday market turned into a muddy scene as rain washed out the stalls in the afternoon. This day the... - Volunteer Photos
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- Casa materna
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Maternal and child health; Health; Host community -
July 21 2008. This photo was taken just after I finished a health talk at the "casa materna" in the town of Los Chiles, Rio San Juan. A casa materna or "community-based birthing home" is a house maintained by the Ministry of Health or another... - Volunteer Photos
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- El baile de pollo
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Games; Volunteers; site -
June 2008. This photo was taken at our Project Design and Management workshop at Selva Negra, near the city of Matagalpa. Three Nicaraguan colleagues and I are perfecting "el baile de pollo", or the chicken dance, that we had been practicing... - Volunteer Photos
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