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    • 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
    • Take a Bite

    • Take a Bite

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

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

    • futbol

    • Traditional dress; Children; housing; Games

    • I love introducing my children to friends I made when serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. In this photo my son Alberto is playing soccer with Enrique Reynoso, the son of a friend I met during community base training in Santa Cruz del...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Motivational Speaker

    • Motivational Speaker

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • Students at an Islamic boarding school in East Java, Indonesia, await a motivational speech by Volunteer Elle Chang. Usually unaware of the full details of an event until she arrived, Chang learned to embrace the ambiguity of such situations.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Idul Fitri

    • Idul Fitri

    • Host families; Traditional dress; Volunteers

    • Idul Fitri is the most celebrated holiday in Indonesia... it is where all Muslims come together to close Ramadan and ask for forgiveness from one another. Idul Fitri is almost like a combination of every American holiday all wrapped into one as it...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trainees on a gua gua

    • Trainees on a gua gua

    • Transportation; Host community; Volunteers

    • This is a photo of a group of trainees as we head to the training center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in Feb of 2001. This is typical public transportation in the city, a crowded "gua gua" where there's always room for one more!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grinding coffee

    • Grinding coffee

    • Food and meals; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Volunteers

    • I took this picture of Volunteer Andrea Yajko learning how to grind coffee from her neighbor. Taken in 2001 in Villa Riva, Dominican Republic
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students with Projects

    • Students with Projects

    • Teachers and students; Schools; Education

    • My teaching was a bit more interactive than the traditional Turkish teachers'. I'd ask students to act out what vocabulary they were learning. Here was a day's lesson on prepositions. Most of my orta okul (middle school) students were from villages...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home remedies

    • Home remedies

    • Markets; health

    • This is a photo of some home remedies sold in the market in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, Oct. 2002. Titles of the potions include, "Come With Me Water," Lucky Water," "I will be with you because I will be with you Water," "Conqueror Water,"...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Map mural

    • Map mural

    • Art; Teachers and students; Youth development

    • A group of Volunteers painting a map mural. Cabrera, Dominican Republic, 2001
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The next generation

    • The next generation

    • Host community friends; Counterparts; Children

    • I returned to visit my counterparts at AFEDES in Santiago Sacatepequez Guatemala March 24, 2010. My counterpart and dear friend, Milvian Aspuac was married and had a baby since I returned to my site in 2008. This photo is of my son, Milvian, her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Special education summer camp

    • Special education summer camp

    • Maternal and child health; Health; Host community; Volunteers

    • This is a photo of me doing some stretching exercises with a child with cerebral palsy during a summer camp for children with disabilities that me and my host mother held in my site. This was work that was done through the parent support group that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tressez-moi!

    • Tressez-moi!

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • February 2011. I got my hair braided in Cinkasse in northern Togo. I had a great time talking and laughing with these two ladies, two wives of the same husband, while they did their work. Braids and wigs are the style there, as women often have...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Computer rehab project

    • Computer rehab project

    • training; children; Volunteers

    • This is a photo of Volunteer Matt Kennedy with youth from his community showing them how to repair computers. I was working for an NGO, World Links, and coordinated this project with Peace Corps and the Ministry of Education to allow a group of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Every Grain Counts

    • Every Grain Counts

    • Agriculture; Volunteers; Training; Host community; Site

    • Indonesia is known for its endless rice fields. During PST, a trainee in my village's host father allowed us to beat the rice onto the tarps, like the farmers. Seeing how rice is processed makes you appreciate food more, and to know that every...
    • Volunteer Photos

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