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 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 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...
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); sports
This photo was taken in July of 2007 at the Kaedi lycee in southern Mauritania. The girls in the picture come from villages all over the country, and are participating in an EcoHealth Camp organized by Health and Environmental Education...