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    • Tuareg Camel Riders

    • Tuareg Camel Riders

    • Celebrations; Animals

    • The Tuareg camel riders completed the 1967 Independence Day Parade in Niger. The Tuareg are the desert people of Northern Niger. The camels are sensitive to humidity and are limited to desert conditions. This is about 15.3 degrees latitude, the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Transportation

    • This photo, taken in 1969, shows men who were traveling from Limatambo, Peru, to an agricultural demonstration farm. The truck, typical of ones that transported both people and goods, had a flat tire, which was being fixed.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Usha and myself

    • Usha and myself

    • host community friends; schools

    • This photo is of Usha, a young girl in the town who assisted me in the Nursery School, and myself. We spent many hours together as friends and teaching young children. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Fall 1966.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vegetable Garden

    • Vegetable Garden

    • food and meals; agriculture

    • Unicef furnished us vegetable seeds so we could help the women in the villages learn to plant and maintain vegetable gardens to have a variety of vegetables all year long. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Winter 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Very Dry and Very Promising

    • Agriculture; Pre-service training (PST)

    • This is what I viewed while on my bike riding home from another Volunteer’s house during pre-service training (PST). People would sleep in this house during short grain rice season to protect their fields from whomever or whatever would damage...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vielka

    • Vielka

    • Markets

    • This was taken in my site Caño Quebrado, Colón, Panamá during my service in 2009. I was buying a few things from this store before going out for the day to harvest coffee with Vielka and her parents (she was on summer break from school). Many...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Visit to Voortrekker Monument

    • Visit to Voortrekker Monument

    • Statues and monuments; Medical evacuation

    • After breaking my ankle in a motorcycle accident, I was flown for surgery to South Africa. I visited the Voortrekker Monument while I was there. Pretoria, South Africa
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Viva Bolivia!

    • Viva Bolivia!

    • Celebrations; children

    • Flag-waving, music, marching and declamations are mandatory for any official event in Bolivia. Often, as in the case of this event, the inauguration of the new teachers' living quarters in the town of Comanche, all the school kids participate....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteers on the Road

    • Volunteers on the Road

    • Food and meals

    • Two Rural Development Volunteers in Guinea (1964) are having lunch on the road. They had stopped in a village, bought something to eat, traveled a bit more, and then stopped to have lunch. They were new volunteers and appear to be somewhat amused...
    • Volunteer Photos

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