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    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • children; construction

    • The Borkeza Public School was located just outside the village and many of the students returned to village kitchen for lunch. Most of the time, the village kitchen served as a shade area for resting cows and goats. With material left over from...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • children; construction

    • The Borkeza Public School was located just outside the village and many of the students returned to village kitchen for lunch. Most of the time, the village kitchen served as a shade area for resting cows and goats. With material left over from...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • children; construction

    • The Borkeza Public School was located just outside the village and many of the students returned to village kitchen for lunch. Most of the time, the village kitchen served as a shade area for resting cows and goats. With material left over from...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • Borkeza School Kitchen Construction

    • children; construction

    • The Borkeza Public School was located just outside the village and many of the students returned to village kitchen for lunch. Most of the time, the village kitchen served as a shade area for resting cows and goats. With material left over from...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sabde Society

    • Sabde Society

    • celebrations

    • I believe that this picture was taken while visiting Valeria Starkey and Pat Kirk in Voinjama, Lofa County. On this day young girls were being inducted into the Sande Society. The picture depicts their parade thru town.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • In Memory

    • In Memory

    • death

    • Moldova is a country that is centered around family, but due to approximately half of the country working abroad, that has become harder and harder to see. However, when a loved one dies, their life is celebrated for years to come. This is a wreath...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Honoring Buddha

    • Honoring Buddha

    • Celebrations; Religion

    • Songkran (Thai New Year) in Thailand ends at Wat Saad with Buddha and the monks. Everyone has spent the last two hours walking through the village being doused with water and/or dousing with water. Buddha does not escape this annual tradition.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • I love the Peace Corps

    • I love the Peace Corps

    • celebrations; host community friends

    • At the end of our summer training, the English Educators in Moldova were ready to party. So we invited all of the students that took a week out of their summer to help us learn how to teach English at "Practice School" to join us in some fun-...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sunflower state

    • Sunflower state

    • environment

    • I'm from Kansas. In fact, I have a blog called, "A Kansas City Gal in Moldova". Kansas is called "the Sunflower State". What I didn't know about Moldova prior to coming here was that it, too, is well-known for it's production of sunflowers....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hello Miss Cate!

    • Hello Miss Cate!

    • host community friends

    • This is my neighbor, SaČ™a. He always seems to be coming back from some errand on his horse drawn wagon just as I am heading to school in the morning and he never fails to say, "Hello Miss Cate!" with a smile, like this one, across his face.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dedication of Borkeza Public School

    • Dedication of Borkeza Public School

    • celebrations

    • On the day that the Borkeza Public School was dedicated, dignitaries from Monrovia visited our town. Dignitaries included Liberia Secretary of Education Dr. John Mitchell, Loma Head Tribal Chief, US Ambassdor Charles Rhetts and USAID worker Curtis...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Do Unto Others.....

    • Do Unto Others.....

    • celebrations; traditional dress; religion

    • When you look closely at this picture, you will notice that the monk's robe is totally wet. For two hours prior to this photo everyone in the village was celebrating the Thai New Year (Songkran), which is April 13-15. During the celebration...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saying goodbye

    • Saying goodbye

    • host community friends; children; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • It doesn't matter what county you live in: saying goodbye is always hard to do. After arriving in our training villages with hardly being able to muster "buna ziua" (hello) in Romanian, after two months it was difficult not to have bonded with our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Many faces

    • Many faces

    • education

    • After a particularly emotionally difficult winter, the only thing I had to look forward to were the bright colors that were going to come with spring. So while I was very sick, I used some of the construction paper that was sent in a care package...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Support

    • Support

    • environment; weather

    • Wow. Winter. Was. Tough. When I am struggling and fighting with my thoughts I grab my camera and I go for a walk through the village to try to put everything back together again. At the time this photograph was taken, I was coming out of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Necessities

    • Peace Corps Necessities

    • animals

    • As a Peace Corps Volunteer of only 8 months (arriving January 2011), I presently feel that the two most necessary things for my survival at my site are the bicycle provided by the PC (a major source of transportation) and the school watch dog (Ya...
    • Volunteer Photos

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