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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
- Life Boat
- Life skills
- This photo was taken at Baybay beach in Roxas City, Philippines during team building exercises while I was an EMS consultant with the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council. I led the staff through a series of various activities...
- Volunteer Photos
- CERT in Action
- Life skills
- I served as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer/EMS Consultant with the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council in the province of Capiz, Philippines in 2012. This photo was taken during a simulated disaster drill in Roxas City....
- Volunteer Photos
- Market Day
- Markets
- Busy market day in a Dogon village. Mali, West Africa.
- Volunteer Photos
- Off to Market
- Markets; Children
- This is a photo of my wife Karen Williams in Malawi in 1982. She is off to the local market with our two chidren. The youngest was born into the Peace Corps in December 1981 while we were stationed in Malawi.
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Capiz Emergency Response Team
- Natural disasters
- These are members of the Capiz Emergency Response Team in Roxas City, Philippines. This photo was taken following a simulated disaster drill near Baybay beach. I served as a Response Volunteer/EMS Consultant with the Provincial Disaster Risk...
- Volunteer Photos
- Earthquake Drill
- Natural disasters; Life skills
- This photo was taken at a local school during an earthquake drill conducted by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council of Roxas City, Philippines. The students are instructed to duck, cover, and hold during the drill and then to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Midwifery Course "Graduation"
- Nurses; Maternal and child health
- I handed my camera to the daughter of one of the midwives who completed our midwifery course. A Peace Corp nurse developed the course with her Paraguayan nurse counterpart through the Ministry of Health and had success in her town. We then used it...
- Volunteer Photos
- Teaching UNO: Cultural Exchange at it's Finest
- Pre-service training (PST)
- This photo was taken in 2011 during pre-service training, November 30, 2011. As we got to know our host families, we found that one game we could all play together is UNO. Playing games together not only allowed us to have fun together, but gave...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Kids Next Door
- Pre-service training (PST); Children
- This picture was taken during our pre-service training (PST) in Belize, April 2011. We are sitting on the steps of a "board house." Every night the girls would come over and say, "Miss Cat, you could tell us a story?"
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- 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
- Future Volunteers
- Staging
- This picture was taken on June 2, 2011. After finishing staging in Washington D.C, here are the Peace Corps Trainees taking a final picture before leaving to Mali, West Africa. The June staging has water sanitation and education Volunteers.
- Volunteer Photos
- Mini Dioro
- Terrain
- I live in Mali, West Africa. I'm a health Volunteer and get to bike along the Niger River everyday as I travel to work at the Cscom. My favorite part of my daily ride is passing by "Mini Dioro," a small island surrounded by the beauty of the Niger...
- Volunteer Photos
- Lake Bunyoni
- Terrain; Site
- This photo was taken during an Easter vacation to the southwest of Uganda. Lake Bunyoni is Africa's second deepest lake.
- Volunteer Photos
- Carpe Diem
- Third goal
- Volunteer Stories
- American/Malian Cross Culture
- Traditional dress
- Pamela and Ashton celebrate the 4th of July in Mali, West Africa. Here we see a perfect example of cross culture as Pamela and Ashton wear traditional Malian pagne (which is a wraparound skirt) and the colors of the United States of America.
- Volunteer Photos
- Koutialakaw
- Traditional dress
- Koutialakaw means people from Koutiala (a city in the region of Sikasso) in Bambara, one of the languages in Mali, West Africa. Here we are dressed up in Malian clothes to go to the mosque.
- 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