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- La Cadena
- Youth; Crafts
- This photo was taken last week in a park in my town. The boy sitting with me is showing me how to make a necklace by stringing together flowers. Photographer is another boy the same age that loves using my camera.
- Volunteer Photos
- Melanny
- Children
- This is one of the girls in my neighborhood that comes to a once-per-week afternoon English class, enjoying an ice pop to beat the heat!
- Volunteer Photos
- Anticipation
- Health; Girls' education
- This photo was taken a few weeks ago at a health fair in Ecuador. My counterpart agency is Plan Internacional, and part of our booth included proper condom use demonstrations. These are students from a local high school that attended the fair,...
- Volunteer Photos
- One of the Boys
- Youth; Education; Teachers and students
- Usually the highlight of my day is hanging out with these kids and their friends, who shine shoes at the center of my town. The problem is they should be in school, and some of them have never gone to school and can't read. I figured I'd be...
- Volunteer Photos
- Luis
- Host community friends
- This is one of my favorite people at site, Luis. The picture was taken by another kid his age, who loves using my camera. It was a morning of some mini photography lessons, not that I am qualified to be giving photography lessons. We are...
- Volunteer Photos
- Pato Pato Gansa
- Education; Teachers and students; Games
- This photo shows education Volunteers in the Philippeans playing the game Pato Pato Gansa or Duck Duck Goose with children at an extension school.
- Volunteer Photos
- Happy Unbirthday
- Celebrations; Training groups
- PCTs in my training cluster wanted to celebrate everyone's birthday together, but knowing we would not be able to attend everyone's real birthday, we celebrated one "unbirthday" each week of PST.
- Volunteer Photos
- My Back Door View
- Pre-service Training (PST); Terrain
- This photo was taken during PST (August 16th, 2010) from the back door of my home stay on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. I took it after a brief rain, just before the sun was going down.
- Volunteer Photos
- Adventures in the Forest
- Children; Teachers and students
- I had just finished teaching my English class wtih the kids and then we would go and play in the forest after. We had just played a game. Then all of us were lying down and I decided to capture this precious moment with my camera. This photo was...
- Volunteer Photos
- Halloween Monster Mash
- Celebrations; Teachers and students; Schools
- This picture was taken the friday before Halloween, in my third grade English class in Armenia. I shared with the children the halloween tradition by having them make jack-o-lanterns at home with their family. Then, on the day of the Halloween...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sunset in Semenivka
- I took this photo one evening while walking home during May 2010. I was in pre-service training at that time in a village in Ukraine. Pre-service training was difficult. We had lessons all day, were learning a new language, and still adjusting...
- Volunteer Photos
- Horno Casero
- Children; Cooking; Camps and clubs
- I teach three cooking classes a week with various women´s groups, and this time we made an home-made oven (horno casero) to cook stuffed peppers. This boy lives at the house in which we were cooking and usually loves to get involved with our...
- Volunteer Photos
- Face to Face
- Youth; Animals
- This was taken in my village in the highlands of Guatemala in August 2010. This girl is one of my English students and after class we went on an adventure to play outside. We walked passed one of her neighbors cows and she got down to see it face...
- Volunteer Photos
- ´´Paseando´´
- Children
- I go to this house every week to teach English as well as teach a cooking class. While the food was cooking, we went outside and the kids were showing me the bicyce cart their dad uses to sell their goods at the market. They love having their photo...
- Volunteer Photos
- Ukrainian Welcome Bread
- Celebrations; Food and meals; Pre-service Training (PST)
- Peace Corps Ukraine Group 39 arrived in Ukraine and was welcomed with traditional bread, dipped in salt. In this picture, trainees are dipping their pieces of the bread in salt.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Beauty Within the Bread Basket of Europe
- Terrain
- This is a picture of a lake in Ukraine at the end of fall. My group and I are lucky enough to be able to study the Russian language during training not far from this lake. It is a great view in the mornings on our way to class.
- Volunteer Photos
- PST 39 Group
- Volunteers; Statues and monuments
- This is a picture of my training cluster in the capital city of Ukraine, Kiev.
- Volunteer Photos
- Operation Smile
- Hospitals; Celebrations
- Dr. Sanaa Ademi and Volunteer Andrew Harris spread Christmas cheer to patients in Jordan during the most recent Operation Smile mission.
- Volunteer Photos
- Dia de Lavarse los Manos
- Celebrations; Water and sanitation; Health
- I took this photo during Global Hand Washing Day on October 15, 2010 in Honduras. I participate in the WWSP with the kinder and celebrated Global Handwashing Day with the students in Honduras and my class in the United States. The photo shows a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Honduras Cultural Day
- Pre-service training (PST); Cross-cultural training
- This photo was taken during Pre-service Training (PST) Cultural Day on July 2, 2010 in Honduras. Cultural Day was a major celebration between PST staff and trainees, helping trainees learn all about our new country's traditions, foods, and culture.
- Volunteer Photos