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    • Day at the Fair

    • Day at the Fair

    • Celebrations

    • This little boy latched on to our mascot during the fair and would not let go. It was quite adorable to see him and our mascot holding hands throughout the day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing Children

    • Dancing Children

    • Youth development; Dance

    • Primary school children participate in traditional dance during a culture and art competition in South Africa on August 30, 2011. The competition was held in the school's biggest hall and categories included modern and traditional dance, choir and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing and Loving Life

    • Dancing and Loving Life

    • HIV/AIDS

    • The creation of support groups and training peer educators for people living with HIV/AIDS is a valuable and often underfunded effort. These groups are a valuable, ‘safe-space’ where people can find a chance to be open about their status, learn...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing and Loving Life

    • Dancing and Loving Life

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Creation of support groups and training peer educator for People Living with HIV/AIDS is a valuable and often underfunded effort. These groups are a valuable, ‘safe-space’ where people can find a chance to be open about their status, learn...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Party

    • Dance Party

    • Dance; Celebrations; Food and meals; Traditional dress

    • This photo was taken in May 2012. My village had a week long cultural week where all the villagers seperated themselves into the 6 provinces of Vanuatu and did culture/custom specific activities throughout the week. My group created a local food...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Lessons

    • Dance Lessons

    • Dance; Traditional dress

    • I took this picture of my wife while she was learning traditional dances with some local children. We are serving together in Costa Rica.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance in Costa Rica

    • Dance in Costa Rica

    • Dance; Youth; Traditional dress

    • The school kids in Costa Rica, 1981, taught me the national dance of Costa Rica. Since I didn't have the dress, they taught me the guy's part - so I got to have a mustache. Then I taught them square dancing to John Denver's music.
    • 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
    • Dam Project

    • Dam Project

    • Environment; Volunteers

    • Several of the volunteers built a dam around a slow running spring to allow the villagers to fill their buckets each morning after the water collected during the night.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Daily Routine

    • Daily Routine

    • water and sanitation; host community friends

    • Woman from the douar, Ouargui shows me how to fill a water pouch during the morning, part of daily routine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • Cultural Day at School

    • Cultural Day at School

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • I took this photo during the cultural day in 2004 at one of the schools I volunteered at in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was a wonderful celebration of their culture. Traditional clothes, food, dance and music made the day so special... for me and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Crossing the Finish Line

    • Crossing the Finish Line

    • Children; Animals; Games

    • This photo was taken on July 5, 2011 at my training site in Mongolia. The boy in the photo is just crossing the finish line of the children's horse race at the ancient Nadaam Festival celebrated every summer, and he looked directly at my camera,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cross-country Culture Exchange

    • Cross-country Culture Exchange

    • Host families

    • Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, working with her host father, community guide and counterpart to lead her American family on a horseback ride to experience the Azueran campo and see the local monte.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creative Kids

    • Creative Kids

    • Children

    • I took this picture in Moldova on 6/20/2010. The picture was taken in front of the high school in where kids and teenagers like to hang out and play. The kids on this picture are being creative, showing how funny and interesting they are.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cow Pie Girl

    • Cow Pie Girl

    • Children; HIV/AIDS

    • A daughter of an HIV positive woman was helping collect manure for drying to be used for heating. This is in Ateya, Ethiopia during my pre-service training.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cow in the Rice Fields

    • Cow in the Rice Fields

    • animals; agriculture; environment

    • When I first got to my training site in Cambodia, my family was still finishing planting rice in the fields behind their house. I was interested to see that the animals weren't raised for food, but were kept to work in the fields during the...
    • Volunteer Photos

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