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    • Welcome to Diawarala!

    • Welcome to Diawarala!
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    • This photo is of me showing off the sign I made welcoming in French and Bambara and English the Peace Corps Director and an employee from Peace Corps Washington to the hamlet of 600 people I lived in. I overlapped by six months with another...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Neighbor Children

    • Neighbor Children

    • Host community friends; Children

    • This is one of my favorite pictures! My neighbor, Hawa, took the photo. As one notices, her finger is in part of the picture because it was the first time she took a picture. Nonetheless, she did a fantastic job. She was a neighbor in my village of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Guineas Support Obama

    • Guineas Support Obama

    • Celebrations

    • Guineans love to hear about America and meet Americans, but they were especially proud to show thier support for President Obama during the campaign. This picture was taken in October 2008 before the presidential election, as a parade of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Guinean Flag on the Beach

    • Guinean Flag on the Beach

    • Terrain

    • Thiis photo was taken the day we swore in as Peace Corps Volunteers. Peace Corps Guinea Volunteers frequented the beach bar which sat in the sand overlooking the islands, and was surrounded by avid soccer players and lots of children. This...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children in San Benito Pointe, Toledo District

    • Children in San Benito Pointe, Toledo District

    • Children; Pre-service Training (PST); Housing

    • San Benito Poite is one of the most remote villages in Belize. It is about 40 miles from the nearest district town, and about 3 miles from the border with Guatemala. The town where I served was about 7 hours from here (on a good day in the dry...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Papaya!

    • Papaya!

    • Food and Meals; Agriculture

    • In the summer of 2006, I joined some of the teachers at the YWCA in Belize City (where I was a Volunteer) in taking a group of 50 children to a papaya farm in the northern part of Belize. This trip was part of the Community Development programs...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children of the Batey

    • Children of the Batey

    • youth

    • The Bateyes, or Haitian migrant sugarcane-camps, are culturally isolated and the most impoverished communities within the Dominican Republic. In this photograph, four batey children play with an improvised toy while they run through the smoke...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coffee Harvest

    • Coffee Harvest

    • agriculture

    • This photograph was taken in Mata Grande, Dominican Republic where my husband Taylor Joyal and I worked on a organic pesticide project with local coffee farmers. Inthis particular shot, one of our best friends, Mecho Fernndez shows off her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Dominican Farmer

    • Traditional Dominican Farmer

    • host community friends; animals

    • This photograph was taken in the mountains of the Dminican Republic where my husband and I served two years working on an organic pesticide project for coffee growers. In this photograph is our host brother, Iselso Marmol, who was a traditonal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coffee Beans

    • Coffee Beans

    • agriculture

    • This photograph is of coffee beans picked during the harvest in the mountains of the Dominican Republic where my husband and I worked with traditional coffee growers on an organic pesticide project. This photograph was taken in 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dominican Morning

    • Dominican Morning

    • housing; host community friends

    • This photograph was taken during technical training in the small community of La Cumbre, Dominican Republic in 2008. A group of volunteers woke up early to embark on a hike with a host brother through the Dominican forest. This young boy was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coexisting: Hinduism and Buddhism

    • Coexisting: Hinduism and Buddhism

    • Religion; Architecture

    • I took this photo at Swayambunath in Kathmandu, Nepal. In the background is a Buddhist stupa, while the foreground shows smaller Hindu shrines. To me it represents the peaceful, beautiful combination of two major world religions in a single society.
    • Volunteer Photos

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