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- Janginoowoo
- Language training
- Sidy Toure, Peace Corps' Pulaar du Nord language trainer. April 2011. (NOTE: Janginoowoo means teacher in Pulaar)
- Volunteer Photos
- Take Me Out To The Ball Game
- Sports; Children
- This photo was taken during training for health group 33 in Namibia, at an organization named Kayec. This is an after school program that we visited during training and we were teaching the learners how to play baseball. The young girls were my...
- Volunteer Photos
- Safety First
- Sports; Children
- This photo was taken in Namibia at the after school program Kayec during our pre-service training for health group 33. We taught the kids how to play the American game of baseball. This boy was trying on a baseball helmet for safety.
- Volunteer Photos
- Locks of Love
- Statues and monuments
- I took this photo while site seeing across Cherinihiv, Ukraine and came across this bridge that had locks in formed into the shape of a heart. I learned from the locals that when you fall in love you take your significant other to the bridge lock...
- Volunteer Photos
- Profile of María
- Elders
- This photograph was shot in Honduras during a nutrition and healthy cooking class for mothers in June of 2011. María is a Lenca women, one of the indigenous populations of Honduras famous for their brightly colored pañuelos (head scarves)....
- Volunteer Photos
- Honduran Folkloric Dance
- Dance; Celebrations
- One of my favorite experiences as a Peace Corps Volunteer has been to witness and take part in the various festivals and celebrations in my community. Folkloric dance dates back to the colonial times, but still holds a lot of importance today....
- Volunteer Photos
- Solidarity
- Dance; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
- This is a picture of the Garifuna Women's Solidarity Dance. It was taken in Belize, March 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Down Time
- Sports
- Soccer is almost as sacred to life as religion in Honduras. If there are five minutes to spare, someone will always manage to find a ball, and a pickup game of soccer will commence. This idea is not lost on Peace Corps Volunteers, and we quickly...
- Volunteer Photos
- Oxen Carts and Bus Wheels
- Transportation
- Oxen carts are still widely used in Honduras to transport Leña (firewood) for people to use in their fogons, or traditional stoves. The bus tires show the resourcefulness and ingenuity of Hondurans: through the appropriation of various abandoned...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Lesson in Soy
- Health; Nutrition
- Photograph taken in Honduras during a nutrition and healthy cooking class for mothers in June of 2011. The photograph shows the mothers and children cheering with the fresh glasses of soy milk we just made. Malnutrition is a tremendous problem...
- Volunteer Photos
- New Methods
- Agriculture; Food security
- USAID has teamed up with my coordinating NGO, World Vision, to promote and implement a new food security initiative throughout Honduras. Intibucá is one of the poorest departments of Honduras and the malnutrition rate among the Lencans, the local...
- Volunteer Photos
- Blue House
- Housing; Architecture
- The brilliant colors of the homes, abundance of greenery, and lounging animals are a universal scene in Honduras, regardless of location. The brilliant color of this house reflects the brilliancy of the lives of the people who reside within it....
- Volunteer Photos
- Giggles
- Children; Pre-service training (PST); Host families
- This is a pictures of my host siblings from my community-based training family in MBour. They thought my digital camera was so funny and loved looking at themselves after I took a picture. They could not hold their giggles for me to get a straight...
- Volunteer Photos
- Language Barrier
- Children
- This was taken in my host village in Fiji on June 19, 2011. The girl in the picture is my neighbor's daughter and is normally shy. She spoke no English and I was still learning Fiji Hindi so our conversations were limited to "hello." She was...
- Volunteer Photos
- Kyrgyzstan Stroll
- That photo was taken on a walk near a village in Kyrgyzstan. Two Volunteers, Luke and Steve, are walking and sharing a talk on the way to the mountains seen in the distance. Photo taken by friend and fellow Volunteer Sarah Hopkins.
- Volunteer Photos
- Eyes and smiles
- Transportation; Teachers and students
- Our grade 2 students were en route to the annual lenten retreat (March 16, 2011). This was taken during the process of being piled up on the bus.
- Volunteer Photos
- San Ignacio From Cahal Pech, Belize
- Terrain
- View of San Ignacio, Cayo District, Belize, taken from Cahal Pech in July, 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Songkran in Nongtakai
- This picture is from the Sorkran Festival in April 2011, which is a water festival in Thailand. This was my host brother. He is throwing dyed water on passersby as his sister wears powder on her face.
- Volunteer Photos
- Talia In Waiting
- Host families; Weddings; Pre-service training (PST)
- This photo is of our pre-service training host family granddaughter, six year-old Talia, while waiting for the start of a wedding ceremony on July 9, 2011. Our host parents' nephew was to be married that afternoon in San Ignacio, Cayo Distrcit,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Work Outing
- Transportation; Counterparts
- This is a picture was taken in June 2011 on route back to the office. This photo opportunity occurred during a work outing to visit an OTOP project.
- Volunteer Photos