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    • Back-Handed Excessive Force Technique

    • Back-Handed Excessive Force Technique

    • Teachers and students; Water and sanitation

    • Learning to brush your teeth can be a fun activity especially when you have a cool new toothbrush to do it with... We received donations of about 50 new toothbrushes and some toothpaste. So, I decided it would be a great opportunity to teach the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bathing

    • Bathing

    • Life skills; Housing

    • Everything changes when living in a foreign country, even how one bathes! Using firewood to heat up water, and finding a big bucket for bathing has become a normal way of living during my time here in the highlands of Guatemala. This photo was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carnaval!

    • Carnaval!

    • Celebrations

    • This photo was taken on February 16th, 2012 in Faja de Baixo,São Nicolau in Cape Verde, Africa. I like this photo because so many of the subjects are looking at the camera. This photo was taken in the small farming community of Faja de Baixo. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carrying "Reds" of Corn

    • Carrying "Reds" of Corn

    • Agriculture

    • During the corn harvest everyone in the family is in the field working. The men carry reds, or very heavy bags of corn that they hand picked from the corn fields, and bring them to their pick up truck or if their land is close enough carry them to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chickens and Pigs on Market Day

    • Chickens and Pigs on Market Day

    • Markets

    • Market days are typically 1-2 times a week in the towns, daily in the big cities, and from the campo (rural areas) they bring down chickens in baskets on the camionetas (chicken buses) to sell in the market. They even put pigs on top of the buses...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Corn Harvest

    • Corn Harvest

    • Agriculture

    • The entire family takes part in the annual corn harvest here in the highlands of Guatemala. When the corn fields are next to the house they are carried up on the roof where they are then shucked and left to dry out for several weeks. This photo was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Deciduous Teeth

    • Deciduous Teeth

    • Teachers and students; Water and sanitation

    • Learning to brush your teeth can be a fun activity especially when you have a cool new toothbrush to do it with... We received donations of about 50 new toothbrushes and some toothpaste. So, I decided it would be a great opportunity to teach the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Don't Forget to Brush Your Tongue

    • Don't Forget to Brush Your Tongue

    • Teachers and students; Water and sanitation

    • Learning to brush your teeth can be a fun activity especially when you have a cool new toothbrush to do it with... We received donations of about 50 new toothbrushes and some toothpaste. So, I decided it would be a great opportunity to teach the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family Effort

    • Family Effort

    • Agriculture

    • The sister and nephew work side by side to hand till the corn fields in November 2011. This is when the corn harvesting takes place, which is between October and December every year, and planting begins in March since it takes about 9 months for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family of Turkeys

    • Family of Turkeys

    • Animals

    • Many families living in rural areas breed turkeys and sell them in the local markets as a major source of their income once they grow big enough. This photo was taken in February 2012 in the highlands of Guatemala.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Farm Girl

    • Farm Girl

    • Animals; Children

    • Most rural families have at least a few animals such as chickens, pigs, turkeys, ducks, dogs and cats. They breed them and then sell them in local weekly markets as a source of income. It is rare they can use one of these animals for their own food...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Frutas en la Playa

    • Frutas en la Playa

    • Markets; Host families

    • After coming back from a day at the beach in February 2012, we were amazed by the amount of fresh, local fruit and wanted to take a picture of my host brother in front of the fruit stand where we bought mangoes and bananas!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Graduation Day

    • Graduation Day
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    • This group of girls were very excited to be graduating from Basico (middle school) here in their local school in the village of San Andres Xecul, Totonicapan, Guatemala. This photo was taken in November 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandfather and Grandson Labor

    • Grandfather and Grandson Labor

    • Host community friends

    • Hand dying the threads is one of the essential steps in the process to make the traditional hand woven wraps worn by the Indigenous Women of Guatemala. This photo was taken in December 2011 in a village in the highlands where these wraps are made...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand Tilling Corn Fields

    • Hand Tilling Corn Fields

    • Agriculture

    • Both men and women take part in the hard labor of hand tilling the corn fields. Starting early in the morning, eating lunch in the field that is brought in baskets by the women, and then returning the next day since there are several acres...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-dying Threads

    • Hand-dying Threads

    • Artisans

    • The process to make Corte, the traditional Indigenous wrap worn by the women of all ages, has many steps and takes several weeks. Hand-dying the thread is done outside in big buckets year-round since corte is made daily here in San Andres Xecul,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-grinding Corn

    • Hand-grinding Corn

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • Everyday corn is eaten with each meal in the form of tortillas or tomalitos. The corn must be ground in order to make a masa that can then be formed by hand to make tortillas or cooked in a the same corn husk leaf to cook in water to make...
    • Volunteer Photos

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