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    • The Rubbish Pit

    • The Rubbish Pit

    • environment; youth

    • In this photo, some children from Natuvu Village, Fiji, are burying rubbish. The photo was taken in 2011, during 'Natuvu Clean-up and Fun Day.' The village is rural and must manage there own rubbish, as there is no removal service available. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-grinding Corn

    • Hand-grinding Corn

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • Everyday corn is eaten with each meal in the form of tortillas or tomalitos. The corn must be ground in order to make a masa that can then be formed by hand to make tortillas or cooked in a the same corn husk leaf to cook in water to make...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Tamales!

    • Making Tamales!

    • Food and meals; Cooking

    • Guatemalan tamales are made with corn masa or ground rice, small piece of pork or beef cooked in a spiced sauce, and for special occasions prunes and red pepper are added. These are eaten around holidays, birthdays, or in some communities every...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandfather and Grandson Labor

    • Grandfather and Grandson Labor

    • Host community friends

    • Hand dying the threads is one of the essential steps in the process to make the traditional hand woven wraps worn by the Indigenous Women of Guatemala. This photo was taken in December 2011 in a village in the highlands where these wraps are made...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Night

    • Night

    • housing

    • My husband, Peace Corps Volunteer, Matthew Wolf, took this picture of me, Alyssa Wolf, in our home in Natuvu Village Fiji. He took it one evening in 2010. The picture shows our usual night time lighting- kerosene lamp- as there is no electricity...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bathing

    • Bathing

    • Life skills; Housing

    • Everything changes when living in a foreign country, even how one bathes! Using firewood to heat up water, and finding a big bucket for bathing has become a normal way of living during my time here in the highlands of Guatemala. This photo was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chickens and Pigs on Market Day

    • Chickens and Pigs on Market Day

    • Markets

    • Market days are typically 1-2 times a week in the towns, daily in the big cities, and from the campo (rural areas) they bring down chickens in baskets on the camionetas (chicken buses) to sell in the market. They even put pigs on top of the buses...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Frutas en la Playa

    • Frutas en la Playa

    • Markets; Host families

    • After coming back from a day at the beach in February 2012, we were amazed by the amount of fresh, local fruit and wanted to take a picture of my host brother in front of the fruit stand where we bought mangoes and bananas!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bottle-bridge

    • Bottle-bridge

    • Secondary projects

    • As we were making our eco-benches made out of bottles filled with trash, one of the girls helping decided to make a path to walk and balance across.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand-weaving Corte

    • Hand-weaving Corte

    • Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Corte, the traditional Indigenous wrap worn by women is hand made with several steps. This giant loom is the final step of this process that takes several weeks. In the town of San Andres Xecul, Totonicapan, Guatemala, corte is made by the majority...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Face to Face

    • Face to Face

    • Youth; Animals

    • This was taken in my village in the highlands of Guatemala in August 2010. This girl is one of my English students and after class we went on an adventure to play outside. We walked passed one of her neighbors cows and she got down to see it face...
    • Volunteer Photos

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