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    • The Kid is Kind and The Sun is Bright

    • The Kid is Kind and The Sun is Bright

    • youth

    • I was cutting down a new soccer field with some guys from my village. They told me to go grab my camera and take a few shots. The first person I saw when I got back was this boy named Richardo. He turned his head, sun blazing upon his gaze, and I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Kids Next Door

    • 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
    • The Ladies in White

    • The Ladies in White

    • funerals

    • These women are from Ban Huay Kor, but went to Wat Non Wang Nang Boa, Amphur Phon, Khonkaen, Thailand, to pay their respects to the monk who was to be cremated later in the evening. This group of women are at every festival in their village.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Mad Hatter

    • The Mad Hatter

    • traditional dress; artisans

    • I took this photo in August 2011 in Ecuador at the famous "Poncho Plaza." This is largely an indigenous community that successfully markets its traditional Andean textiles and goods throughout the world. This photo depicts the Panama hat, a symbol...
    • 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
    • The Most Exciting Game of Go-Fish

    • The Most Exciting Game of Go-Fish

    • Children

    • I had just gotten back home to site from being in the city for two weeks of intensive in-service training. I was nervous about returning to site, returning to my normal routine, the seclusion, the intense cultural differences that make living in a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Risk Game

    • The Risk Game

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS lecture my students were providing to one of our local combined primary and junior high schools on July 20th, 2012 in Ghana. The photo shows my HIV/AIDS student leaders from the senior high school I teach at...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Road Ahead

    • The Road Ahead

    • housing

    • I took this photo on my site visit during training, when we visit our partner organizations and stay with our host families at our permanent site for the first time. It's the road to my new home. It's rocky, it's got rough edges, and you can't...
    • 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
    • The Tsáchilas Touch

    • The Tsáchilas Touch

    • Traditional dress

    • Here, a tribal member the Tsáchilas community is applying the achiote paste to dye my hair...a sign of their welcoming me and my Omnibus into their tribe for the day, but also a way for us to enter their world and not just observe, but FEEL, what...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Ukrainian Flag Re-Created

    • The Ukrainian Flag Re-Created

    • Terrain

    • The blue in the Ukrainian flag represents the blue sky, while the yellow represents their golden wheat fields. I took this picture behind the school in Rudky. While the yellow is not full of wheat, it is full of yellow flowers appearing to make...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Wait

    • The Wait

    • Terrain; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Environment

    • 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
    • Their Undivided Attention

    • Their Undivided Attention

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during our Farewell Celebration for our host families in Mpumalanga, South Africa on March 22, 2012, day before I was to be sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa. Staring from the back, I was in awe at the...
    • 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
    • Third goal: Islamic - Chistian celebration

    • Third goal: Islamic - Chistian celebration

    • Older Volunteers; Traditional dress; Diversity

    • My first Christmas back in America. I am wearing my teaching uniform from my Islamic High School in Indonesia. My grandchildren Talon, Kira & Arlo are wearing Muslim prayer caps and a jilbab for young girls. Grandma Oma Colleen Young is telling her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • This Is a Winning Ticket, I Promise!

    • This Is a Winning Ticket, I Promise!

    • teachers and students; education

    • A principal is giving out tickets to the students who were speaking to him in English. The tickets are part of SEED (Speak English Every Day) which was established by Volunteer Carla Arnold and her counterpart Ning Saijung in March 2011. A...
    • Volunteer Photos

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