This was on a field trip to the Carib Territory which is on the west coast of Dominica. The children in the picture are all currently living in a youth shelter where I work as counselor/care-giver.
Despite of the rain, the students’ eager to collected as much trash as they could in order to help promote a cleaner environment and raise environmental awareness throughout the community of Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco. This photo shows the students...
After an environmental trash pick-up activity and lesson in Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, we’ve divided the students in groups and asked them to present what they have learned from the activity and how they envision a healthy environment to be.
Zakaria placed the collected trashes into the garbage can from an environmental trash pick-up activity in Ait Ben Haddou. This activity enhances the youth awareness and helps promote a cleaner and healthier environment.
After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
After an environmental trash pick-up activity, we planned an art and craft activity to teach the students/youth to enhance their creative mind through making tables and chairs from recycle goods like soda cans. As the students explored their...
Eager to learn, level three students at an orphanage camp in Rabat are writing their daily lesson. They are excited to learn what I was going to teach them next. These young minds are full of questions about proper ways of writing and speaking...
This photo was taken in Guatemala. In an effort to share cuisine from other cultures and teach about nutrition, I held an International Cooking Day for the 9th graders in this village. These girls chose the hardest dish, Bangalore curry chicken,...
This photo was taken while leading rural Salvadoran youth in a group discussion after the first performance of "A Mi Manera," an original musical promoting life skills, gender equality, and reproductive health. Over 100 rural youth from Peace Corps...
This picture was taken just after we finished painting a giant chess board on the gravel lot outside my school attachment. We decided to make the pieces out of recycled bottles. In the picture is me and the youth and sports teacher.
I helped lead an English leadership summer camp at a school in L'viv. Here I was explaining a game, and the kids were excited to get started. I believe the game happening in this picture was "Giants, Wizards, & Elves."
This photo, taken on July 21, 2011, depicts Peace Corps trainee Jeff as he demonstrates "trust falls' with Peruvian youth at the local colegio in Peru during field-based training. Youth development Volunteers often use self-esteem and trust...
I took this photo July 19, 2011 in Ecuador. After school, this 12 year old girl and her mother visited their local hair salon and chopped off more than 12" each. They had been planning to donate their hair for months - the little girl had seen an...
This photo that I took in January, 2011, shows young teenage girls from the Andes mountains in Shilla, Peru on their first day of the club Mujeres Poderosas (Powerful Women) in which they participated in a 6 week workshop where we talked about...