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...
Photo was taken outside the clinic in Liro, Paama in the Republic of Vanuatu. Volunteer Amy Chan and Peace Corps staff Excellent Toka are showing off the free condoms that are available to the community.
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...
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.
Galilaya is a fishing village located on Lake Kyoga at one of the northern most points in Kayunga District. Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) collaborated with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Katherine Peters to do HIV education in Kayunga...
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...
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...
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.
They said she couldn't do it in a mulafa. This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, during EcoHealth Camp 2007; one week in July where 2 girls from each Peace Corps village and their chaperones came together for sports,...
This photo was taken in May, 2006, at the garage in Saint-Louis, Senegal, from inside an ancient taxi about to head north. The official term for the boys at my window, young students sent out by their religious teacher to solicit alms, is...
This photo was taken in mid-March, 2006, somewhere a little more than halfway between Rosso and N'Diago, Mauritania. We were transporting 60 improved cookstoves, each weighing 30 kg, 128 kilometers from the regional capital, Ross, to N'Diago, on...
This photo was taken at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania, in July 2007. The girls in the photo are participating in EcoHealth Camp, a week of activities organized by Peace Corps volunteers focused on health, AIDS, and environmental...
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...
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...
This photo was taken in November of 2005, in Jidr El Mohghuen, Mauritania. As a new volunteer, one of the most difficult things to adjust to was how to be a "good guest" when getting to know new families. The midwesterner in me demanded that I...
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...