Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.
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...
After we had just finished a team-building activity during pre-service training in December of 2010, the boys crowded around to have their photo taken.
This is a photo of my volunteer club, Together We Can Succeed. The kids are from a small village in Bulgaria , called Svoboda. We created the awareness ribbon cookies by hand, and wrapped them to be sold for future HIV/AIDS prevention projects. The...
This image was taken during my site visit in Peru on August 12, 2011. A new friend in my community, an 11 year-old boy named Toni, took me on a walk around the outskirts of town to show me the beautiful surrounding scenery. On the way back home, we...
I took this photo on a clear day during my training in July 2010 in Cambodia. I went to this pagoda to study language with another Volunteer and we were captivated by the beauty. This photo depicts the roof of one pagoda.
Two young dar chebab (youth center) students in Morocco participated in creating an art mural for the dar chebab where Volunteer Elizabeth Chon taught the students how to paint properly and the meaning behind the art mural.
Volunteer Katie Powell teaches primary school children swimming lessons on Timothy Beach on St. Kitts for the Ministry of Education Summer Camp. The picture was taken in July of 2011.
This photo was taken during a Brain Camp session I instructed in Karak, Jordan during July of 2011. The camp was focused on developing critical thinking skills for college age students who would, after familiarizing themselves with the curriculum,...
Camp HEAL (Human trafficking, Education, Aids/HIV, Leadership) is a camp held in Ukraine. The camp is a week long camp that helps educate the Ukrainian youth in these topics. In the picture are the camp directors, both Peace Corps Volunteers and...
This photo was taken in July 2010, as I'm surrounded by fifth and sixth graders of primary school in Club Huascaran in the school in my site in Peru. I formed this environmental club to promote conserving and protecting the environment as well as...
This picture was taken during GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) Camp 2012 in the Dominican Republic. These girls spent the week learning about leadership, HIV/AIDS, managing stress, teamwork, and future planning. These 2 young leaders will spend the...
During a Soy Sana Chicas Brillantes, which is our version of G.L.O.W., mini conference in Dominican Republic I took a picture with my Deportes para la Vida (grassroots soccer) trainers who ran HIV/AIDS prevention games for the conference.