TEFL Volunteer Ilana in Balkan Region of Turkmenistan gets students to act out English actions with pantomime, Oct 2011. Students are wearing "tahya" hat" as part of their school uniform, with patterns unique to each gender and region.
Peace Corps Volunteer Andy (TEFL Turkmenistan) seems to have attracted a bevy of beauties to his after-school English Club. Young Turkmen women balance tradition, with long hair and hand-embroidered, long dresses, yet have a sense of fashion that...
Volunteer Shannon poses with the five Muslim, Turkmen English teachers at his school, giving a glimpse into the diversity of experience that Volunteers give and receive from their service abroad.
Peace Corps is famous for hands-on, experiential learning, so staff have to get down and dirty as well as Volunteers. In February 2011 Turkmenistan staff at an IPBS Retreat formed small groups to act out "machines." Here one group, with Health...
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
The photo was taken at North-West Province of South Africa in a school called Goakganya Primary School where Peace Corps had their permagarden training with PCVs & Counterparts. The workshop was held on the 2-3 April 2012 and the picture was taken...
I took this photo on my visit to the Jamaica post in October 2010. We went to the eastern most tip of the island to visit with Volunteers who took us to one of the school sites. This picture shows several primary school children that were allowed...
This photo was taken by Everett Lott in October 2009 in a small village outside of Kingston, Jamaica. The smile of this young primary student and his very outgoing personality really illustrated for me how grateful he was for the program that the...