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    • Cultural Experience

    • Cultural Experience

    • Dance

    • Dancing to Azeri Music at one of our elders' birthday. Getting integrated into the host community is an a great way to becoming a productive and an effective volunteer.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • To the Table

    • To the Table

    • Life skills

    • My Peace Corps friend, Adam Szabunio, took this photo during my Sewing Workshop; in his Fijian village, Korokula Village,October 2011.Almost everything in Fiji is done on the floor...so(my 60 year old hips) really appreciated the tables that the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Helping Hands

    • Helping Hands

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken November 16, 2012 in Costa Rica at an anti-abuse march. Many schools, businesses, and PANI (Costa RIca's equivalent to Health and Human Services) were involved. Groups made signs and walked a mile in the main part of town.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • C-section

    • C-section

    • Medicine; Maternal and child health

    • This was taken in the operating room of the Nsanje District Hospital in 1982 during a c-section. I was a PCV doctor and worked as the District Medical Officeer of Nsanje District in Malawi. This is one of many operations I performed during my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taking out the Trash

    • Taking out the Trash

    • Environment

    • This photo was taken in the village of Dihovo where all of PC Macedonia teamed up to help with a trash cleanup. We cleaned for 2 days and picked up over 30 tons of trash from the river and its banks! We pulled everything imaginable out of this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dam Project 2

    • Dam Project 2

    • Water and sanitation

    • Another picture of the construction of a dam by several Volunteers around a spring near Agbor, Nigeria to allow villagers to fill their buckets with water each morning.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Reunion Thailand

    • Reunion Thailand
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    • This is a reunion with my former students in Bangkok. I taught them English in the southern town of Pattalung more than 35 years ago. I was thrilled to see them all again at this surprise meeting at a restaurant. For so many years I wondered if my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gusekura

    • Gusekura

    • Food and meals

    • This picture was taken at a convent in Bugaragara Village in Nyagatare District, Eastern Province of Rwanda. The picture shows Sister Sarafina and I in the process of making soy milk using an isekuru (a pounder) to smash soybeans.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Children's Library

    • Community Children's Library

    • Libraries

    • This picture was taking in September 2012 in Mozambique. I, Theresa Cole, am an Education Peace Corps Volunteer in Mozambique who is starting a Children's Community Library in my community. The building in the photo was donated to me by my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making LapLap

    • Making LapLap

    • Food and meals; Pre-service training (PST)

    • LapLap is a staple dish in Vanuatu. During pre-service training in October 2012, our group created the dish for our training village from scratch. One of the processess of making LapLap is 'scratching' or 'ras-rassing' the root crop until it is a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Vandal in Zambia

    • A Vandal in Zambia

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Host families; Universities

    • I got a doll of my school mascot the day I graduated from University of Idaho. Joe Vandal now travels the world with me, and wouldn't miss out on serving in Africa alongside. This picture is of my PST host sister, Jesska, and Joe, the day I said my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Vandal in Zambia

    • A Vandal in Zambia

    • Universities; Host families; Pre-Service Training (PST)

    • I got a doll of my school mascot the day I graduated from University of Idaho. Joe Vandal now travels the world with me, and wouldn't miss out on serving in Africa alongside. This picture is of my PST host sister, Mapala, and Joe, the day I said my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Vandal in Zambia

    • A Vandal in Zambia

    • Universities; Host families; Pre-Service Training (PST)

    • I got a doll of my school mascot the day I graduated from University of Idaho. Joe Vandal now travels the world with me, and wouldn't miss out on serving in Africa alongside. This picture is of my PST host sister, Mapalo, and Joe, the day I said my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Moroz, Yavlenka, Kazakhstan

    • The Moroz, Yavlenka, Kazakhstan

    • Weather

    • I took this picture in January 2008 in Kazakhstan. The Moroz (Frost) in Kazakhstan could get down to deathly temperatures, but at the same time it could be one of the most amazing and beautiful scenery to encounter. When the Moroz would set in on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • To The Market

    • To The Market

    • Traditional dress; Cross-cultural transition

    • A Yoruba lady on her way to market in Nigeria just after arriving for our tour in January 1964.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Garden in Costa Rica

    • School Garden in Costa Rica

    • Agriculture; Community development; Food and meals; Schools

    • I worked with 12 schools in Costa Rice from 1980 to 1982. This was at the school called San Francisco. The teacher and students were wonderful and worked hard on their vegetable garden.
    • Volunteer Photos

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