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    • Oxen Carts and Bus Wheels

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Kyrgyzstan Stroll
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    • 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

    • 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
    • Songkran in Nongtakai

    • Songkran in Nongtakai
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    • 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

    • 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

    • 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
    • Game Time

    • Game Time

    • Sports

    • This is a picture was taken in April 2011 at the farm of my host family in Thailand. This is a photo of a water cooler and a takraw ball. Takraw is a very popular sport in Thailand.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Balat

    • My Balat

    • Transportation; Counterparts

    • This is a picture was taken in June 2011 on route back to site. This is a photo of my Balat, Chief Administrator, who is also my counterpart. This is a work event and the entire office is on this bus. Powder is a big part of Thai customs and so...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fist Pump

    • Fist Pump

    • Celebrations; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken during the International Holiday African Child celebration at my school in Rwanda on June 16th 2011. Here we are dancing.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thai Girl and Fish

    • Thai Girl and Fish

    • Children; Fishing

    • This is a picture was taken in May 2011 at my house. I have a pond with three different types of fish. One type had babies and another kind of fish was eating them. So, this girl and I separated the baby fish form the large pond so they would not...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • They Don't See Many Farangs

    • They Don't See Many Farangs

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • On my first visit to my village's school, the moment the kids saw me, they went nuts. The ones in the photo did not have an supervision, so they stormed out of the classrooms to look at the tall American who just came to their small school in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Agriculture; Pre-service training (PST)

    • This is what I viewed while on my bike riding home from another Volunteer’s house during pre-service training (PST). People would sleep in this house during short grain rice season to protect their fields from whomever or whatever would damage...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Serene Life

    • The Serene Life

    • Fishing

    • This picture was taken in March 2011, at the home of my host family during pre-service training in Thailand. It is a photo of my neighbor gathering food for dinner by electrocuting fish in the river behind my house. He would shock the water then...
    • Volunteer Photos

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