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    • Zebra

    • Zebra

    • Animals; Food and meals

    • This photo was taken by me at the Wildlife Offices in Pandamatenga, Botswana. The area is full of wild African game and many of the animals are killed on the road and then are butchered where the meat is auctioned off to the local villagers. This...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zambian Crossroads

    • Zambian Crossroads

    • Transportation

    • It was a mid-afternoon day on May 2004 at Mpika, Zambia in the Northern Province. This picture is taken on the Great North Road at the junction that goes to Kasama. The BP Station is the only one in the district and a place I have spent countless...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zaire Fisheries

    • Zaire Fisheries

    • Work; Agriculture; Fishing

    • Inspecting a pond with other aquaculture (fisheries) volunteers. We grew Tilapia. This was part of our orientation to farming in Zaire, prior to language training at Bukavu, Lake Kivu. 1980
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • This photo was taken during the unveiling of an HIV prevention mural painted in 2008 in collaboration with the students from Kongo SS in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was the culmination of a six week project focused on collaboration between...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth HIV/AIDS Workshop

    • Youth HIV/AIDS Workshop

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during the Makira Island Youth HIV/AIDS workshop on July 6th, 2011, on Makira Island, Vanuatu. It was a one-day workshop focusing on teaching the youth of the island about HIV/AIDS. The workshop was broken up into four sections...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Day Parade

    • Youth Day Parade

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Technology; Youth

    • This photo was taken while my husband taught a Basics of Computers class to a group of young Basotho men in Lesotho. The photo captures him explaining the use of the keyboard for the first time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Zambian Boy

    • Young Zambian Boy

    • Children

    • This photo was taken in September 2010 during our celebration of induction into Peace Corps Zambia. I was trying to take photos of the dancers behind this boy, but the constant gazing of his eyes drew my lens to focus on him. My favorite part of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Maternal and child health

    • This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Traditional dress; Children

    • This little girl is one of my neighbors and she is the loudest little girl. She will see me coming from a mile away and scream my name as loud as she can before running over and chatting non-stop in the local language, Kiborana. On this day in June...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Friends

    • Young Friends

    • Children

    • I was greeted by these two beautiful little girls during the dedication of the Thomas Hooyman Library in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia on August 29, 2009. It was a return visit to Ethiopia, where I had served in the 1970s.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Friend

    • Young Friend

    • Children

    • This photo was taken in 1964 in DananĂ©, Ivory Coast, where I taught English and physical education at a secondary school. The little boy, the son of the town photographer, was quite brave. Many of the other kids would run away when I approached.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • You Go Girl

    • You Go Girl

    • Girls' education; Host community

    • Many of the men in my village leave to find work in Italy. They are gone for years at a time while the women and girls have to make ends meet in village, waiting for money to be sent over. This is a photo of three girls from my village in...
    • Volunteer Photos

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