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    • Making Tamales!

    • Making Tamales!

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • Guatemalan tamales are made with corn masa or ground rice, small piece of pork or beef cooked in a spiced sauce, and for special occasions prunes and red pepper are added. These are eaten around holidays, birthdays, or in some communities every...
    • 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
    • Peace Corps Weight Loss!

    • Peace Corps Weight Loss!
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    • This Volunteer was showing us in the Peace Corps Office in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala his success over the past 2 years of his service in losing weight and having to make new holes in his belt. He explained that finally reaching a healthy weight...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students During Recess

    • Students During Recess

    • Children; Games

    • During recess the kids love to be active and play, and many like to climb things. This photo was taken in a village in the highlands of Guatemala in February 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sierra Leone 1987 Leon and Regina

    • Sierra Leone 1987 Leon and Regina

    • Weddings

    • This photo was taken in the village of Katta on the coast of Sierra Leone where a crowd had gathered to see the washed up body of a large manatee. In the picture are Leon Poeske and Regina White who met as Volunteers and have been married now for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sierra Leone 1987, Smoke Drying Fish

    • Sierra Leone 1987, Smoke Drying Fish

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • Women smoke dry fish as a way to preserve the fish for sale up country. This woman is lighting a fire under a platform containing over a hundred fish. She will stay under the platform all night to ensure that the fire doesn't go out.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • Forestry

    • PCRV Jacob Slusser seen with OCASP reforestation group and their first native tree seedlings in a small tree nursery. The saplings were to reforest riparian areas that are important for the Panama Canal Watershed. June 2008, San Juan de Pequeni,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Say "Toothbrush"

    • Say "Toothbrush"

    • 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
    • The Toothfairy is at it Again...

    • The Toothfairy is at it Again...

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • The Lost Village

    • The Lost Village

    • Architecture

    • This photo was taken while visiting the (abandoned) village of Arbescadjau on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde, Africa. To get there I had to hike for about 3 miles over the biggest mountain on the island. My friend and his family were all...
    • 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
    • Sustainability

    • Sustainability

    • Life skills; Technology

    • I took this photo-during one of my sewing workshops in Nagado, Fiji in January, 2011. The most important part of the workshop is to show the villagers how to repair their own machines. This elderly woman is repairing her own sewing machine. Ana,...
    • Volunteer Photos

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