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    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Agriculture

    • Strong winds may kick up a lot of dust in the Far North of Cameroon, but the Kapsiki women here use this force of nature to separate beans and grains from there protective layers. January 27th, 2012.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Who We Are

    • Who We Are

    • Teachers and students

    • In June 2012 in L'viv on the same day as a EURO 2012 game was taking place in the city, my leadership club from school and the organization Prosvita partnered for an event. Prosvita organized a concert, while the leadership club implemented their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where in the World?

    • Where in the World?

    • Animals; Terrain

    • When I saw this view I thought of France and Camille Corot's landscape paintings of France. But no, this scene was real in Thailand. I had just moved to my permanent site in March and took this picture April 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • When the Battle Begins

    • When the Battle Begins

    • Environment; Children; Terrain

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What is a Hammock?

    • What is a Hammock?

    • host community friends; children

    • A Fijian family lives below me. They have two young sons, and there is another boy the age of their sons that lives next door. When I am outside doing laundry or reading in my hammock they'll come bug me, its kind of silly because they speak little...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Children; Host community; Ceremonies

    • Welcoming Ceremony at the Wat: None of us understand much of anything that is going on around us, but we understand when a little girl is diligently collecting every one of the best-smelling flowers in the room for her own. Much to our amusement,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding Day

    • Wedding Day

    • celebrations

    • 15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitos and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding Celebration

    • Wedding Celebration

    • Dance; Women in Peace Corps; Weddings

    • These women were so happy about their cousins marriage, they broke out into dance in the middle of the street while preparing for the celebration.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wedding Bliss

    • Wedding Bliss

    • Weddings; Celebrations; Dance; Traditional dress

    • The midwife at a local clinic celebrates on her wedding day in Burkina Faso. The bride is dancing with friends during a Muslim wedding celebration where friends stick money on her while singing and dancing. People all around are using technology...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Are All In This Together

    • We Are All In This Together

    • teachers and students; education

    • Teachers are learning English, along with the students, through the Speak English Every Day program. They are reading one of the weekly dialogues created by Volunteer Carla Arnold (2011-2013) and her Thai co-teacher. The students are given...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Are All Affected

    • We Are All Affected

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo at my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in a village in South Africa. After the formal program of the day, different activites were organized to get the attendees of the event to think about the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water: A Gift

    • Water: A Gift

    • water and sanitation; host community friends

    • Water in Cambodia is not a sparse commodity, at least during the rainy season. My host family used the pool of water in their back yard to clean clothes and dishes, as well as jump into when they were hot after playing volleyball. Rain in Cambodia...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Color

    • Water Color

    • Anniversaries; Celebrations

    • I took this picture at the Peace Corps 50th anniversary celebration in Stefan cel Mare park in Chisinau, Moldova in August 2011. The photo shows decorations of balloons on the right hand side, with the Peace Corps logo displayed on the stage in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching the Games

    • Watching the Games

    • schools; children

    • This photo was taken in July, 2011 during an school track and field competition at the primary teachers college where I serve as an education volunteer. Despite my lack of technical knowledge on track and field events, I helped run practices...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • Children; Celebrations; Sports

    • This picture was taken during a village holiday celebration on August 7, 2011 in Ukraine. Each year there is a big celebration for the village of 3500 people. There is a concert, games for children, shaslik (Ukrainian style bbq) dancing, and a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • The people of Issan (Northeast Thailand) are very resourceful, especially when it comes to eating. This is a boiling ox placenta. It so happens that the calf was named "Farang" (which means foreigner) in my honor. I was the first one to be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waste Management

    • Waste Management

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller , sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, giving a charla about waste – organic, inorganic, toxic and recycling.
    • Volunteer Photos

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