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    • Village Wedding

    • Village Wedding

    • Weddings

    • This picture was taken on July 16th, 2011, in a village in Bulgaria. Kay and Tyler are the bride and groom, and are accompanied by a few of the many babas (grandmothers) in this small village. Kay and Tyler met during pre-service training (PST),...
    • Girls

    • Girls

    • Youth

    • While walking back to the village during my Volunteer visit, these three young women came up to talk with us. They asked me to take their picture. After a few shots they grabbed each other's hands to stand in this circle. April 2011.
    • Vinegarville

    • Vinegarville

    • Business development; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture

    • This is a picture of some of the 25 women who are learning to to make vinegar, wine vinegar, and herb-infused vinegar. The man in the picture is the agricultural agent who is teaching them. They come every week from all over the valley. They hope...
    • 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?"
    • Janginoowoo

    • Janginoowoo

    • Language training

    • Sidy Toure, Peace Corps' Pulaar du Nord language trainer. April 2011. (NOTE: Janginoowoo means teacher in Pulaar)
    • Take Me Out To The Ball Game

    • Take Me Out To The Ball Game

    • Sports; Children

    • This photo was taken during training for health group 33 in Namibia, at an organization named Kayec. This is an after school program that we visited during training and we were teaching the learners how to play baseball. The young girls were my...
    • Safety First

    • Safety First

    • Sports; Children

    • This photo was taken in Namibia at the after school program Kayec during our pre-service training for health group 33. We taught the kids how to play the American game of baseball. This boy was trying on a baseball helmet for safety.
    • Locks of Love

    • Locks of Love

    • Statues and monuments

    • I took this photo while site seeing across Cherinihiv, Ukraine and came across this bridge that had locks in formed into the shape of a heart. I learned from the locals that when you fall in love you take your significant other to the bridge lock...
    • Profile of María

    • Profile of María

    • Elders

    • This photograph was shot in Honduras during a nutrition and healthy cooking class for mothers in June of 2011. María is a Lenca women, one of the indigenous populations of Honduras famous for their brightly colored pañuelos (head scarves)....
    • Honduran Folkloric Dance

    • Honduran Folkloric Dance

    • Dance; Celebrations

    • One of my favorite experiences as a Peace Corps Volunteer has been to witness and take part in the various festivals and celebrations in my community. Folkloric dance dates back to the colonial times, but still holds a lot of importance today....
    • Solidarity

    • Solidarity

    • Dance; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This is a picture of the Garifuna Women's Solidarity Dance. It was taken in Belize, March 2011.
    • Down Time

    • 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...
    • Oxen Carts and Bus Wheels

    • 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...
    • A Lesson in Soy

    • A Lesson in Soy

    • Health; Nutrition

    • Photograph taken in Honduras during a nutrition and healthy cooking class for mothers in June of 2011. The photograph shows the mothers and children cheering with the fresh glasses of soy milk we just made. Malnutrition is a tremendous problem...
    • New Methods

    • New Methods

    • Agriculture; Food security

    • USAID has teamed up with my coordinating NGO, World Vision, to promote and implement a new food security initiative throughout Honduras. Intibucá is one of the poorest departments of Honduras and the malnutrition rate among the Lencans, the local...
    • Blue House

    • Blue House

    • Housing; Architecture

    • The brilliant colors of the homes, abundance of greenery, and lounging animals are a universal scene in Honduras, regardless of location. The brilliant color of this house reflects the brilliancy of the lives of the people who reside within it....
    • Giggles

    • Giggles

    • Children; Pre-service training (PST); Host families

    • This is a pictures of my host siblings from my community-based training family in MBour. They thought my digital camera was so funny and loved looking at themselves after I took a picture. They could not hold their giggles for me to get a straight...
    • Language Barrier

    • Language Barrier

    • Children

    • This was taken in my host village in Fiji on June 19, 2011. The girl in the picture is my neighbor's daughter and is normally shy. She spoke no English and I was still learning Fiji Hindi so our conversations were limited to "hello." She was...
    • Kyrgyzstan Stroll

    • Kyrgyzstan Stroll
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    • That photo was taken on a walk near a village in Kyrgyzstan. Two Volunteers, Luke and Steve, are walking and sharing a talk on the way to the mountains seen in the distance. Photo taken by friend and fellow Volunteer Sarah Hopkins.

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