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    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • agriculture

    • Inland fisheries program in Sierra Leone was implemented by working with rural farmers to build ponds and raise Tilapia nilotica as a source of protein. A pond was constructed during training and a piece of bamboo was installed to serve as the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Brother and Sister by the River

    • Brother and Sister by the River

    • children

    • This picture was taken April 28, 2011 along the banks of the Niger river in Mali. I was out on the banks with my women's association dyeing bazaan material, and caught this brother and sister pair resting under the shade of a pirogue. A pirogue is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Masai girl

    • Masai girl

    • traditional dress; celebrations; youth

    • This is a photo I took of a Masai girl who is all dressed up for her village's celebration. My wife and I are are placed in Kibaya, Tanzania where we have a large Masai population. We have a good deal of Masai friends as well, so we get to attend...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • housing

    • While traveling to the southern part of Sierra Leone to experience marine fisheries harvesting, I went through the village of Sulima, pictured here. Homes and surrounding grounds were made of all natural materials and emaculately kept.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • I feel like dancing

    • I feel like dancing

    • dance; traditional dress

    • This is a photo of some Masai women dancing during their village's celebration. My wife and I are are placed in Kibaya, Tanzania where we have a large Masai population. We have a good deal of Masai friends as well, so we get to attend some of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tilapia nilotica

    • Tilapia nilotica

    • agriculture

    • Tilapia nilotica is the fish raised in the Inland Fisheries program in Sierra Leone. I took this photo while Skip DuFour, a fellow fisheries volunteer, held it for me following a pond harvest in early 1982.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trifon Zarezan Day

    • Trifon Zarezan Day

    • music

    • I took this photo on February 12th, 2011, of the local folk song group in Chiprovtsi Bulgaria. They were warming up with tea, honey, and rakia before singing for Trifon Zarezan Day Celebrations. Trifon Zarezan is an annual holiday celebrating...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rosing Dela Santos

    • Rosing Dela Santos

    • elders; host families

    • This is a photo of my host Nanay (Mom), Rosing Dela Santos of Manghan-Vaca, Subic, Luzon, The Philippines. A Sunday morning shortly after I had gotten to her home, she took me "shopping", that is gathering food from a nearby field. At one point,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grape Harvesting

    • Grape Harvesting

    • host community friends; agriculture

    • This photo was taken September 27th, 2010 in a garden near Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria. I spent the day harvesting grapes for homemade wine with my friend, Yulka (pictured). She taught me folk songs while we worked.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Argan Oil

    • Argan Oil

    • host families; artisans

    • This photo was taken in the small village of Ain Chaib, Morocco, just east of Agadir, on my host grandmothers farm. It is early morning and Jdda (grandma) is sitting on a grain bag, sifting through argan nuts as she pours them into a hand operated...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cardboard Abaci

    • Cardboard Abaci

    • education

    • During a school break myself and a three other Volunteers conducted a science and maths day camp. One of the activities was to make an abacus out of cardboard and then learn how to use it.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Muslim Writing Board

    • Muslim Writing Board

    • religion; youth

    • I had wanted to get an Islamic writing board to bring home and show American children what is used in Muslim schools in Sierra Leone to teach Arabic and learn passages from the Qur’an. No one was willing to part with theirs so I bought a new one...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trust Fall

    • Trust Fall

    • youth development

    • Photo taken in 2010 during a peer education workshop in Tubmanburg, Liberia. The students are demonstrating the trust fall...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hollowed our Jicaro (Hee-ka-ro) for Coffee!

    • Hollowed our Jicaro (Hee-ka-ro) for Coffee!

    • host community friends

    • This is a picture of a very dear friend of mine, Felicia, hollowing out a dried Jicaro Fruit, in order to use it as a mug for coffee drinking! They live in Costa Rica in the small fishing village on the golf of Nicoya, Colorado de Abangares. Her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Let's Make A Tent

    • Let's Make A Tent

    • host community friends; children

    • I got back from a six day backpacking trip with other volunteers and my tent need cleaning. Like everything I do in the Peace Corps this soon turned into a learning experience for the kids on my street.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cleaning My Bike

    • Cleaning My Bike

    • host community friends; children

    • I lived in a South Africa for three years and there are always kids playing outside my house. Anything I do becomes an activity for the kids. In this photo my host brother (in the Michigan sweatshirt) and the little boy who lives next door wanted...
    • Volunteer Photos

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