This photo was taken on April 19, 2010 at SMAN 2 Batu High School in East Java, Indonesia. I took this picture of my friends Travis and Giovanna during our Pre-Service Training teaching practicum. The students really enjoyed their English lesson...
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken on May 27, 2010 in Pandanrejo village, East Java, Indonesa. I took this photo of Angela, PCV and Ibu Eka a language and culture facilitator during Pre-Service Training. We were conducting a PACA tool event in the village...
This photo was taken on May 21, 2010 in East Java, Indonesia during Pre-Service Training. We did the world map project in the village community center. The little kids in the village loved to help paint!
The photo was taken during an Information, Education, Communication (IEC) campaign the Philippines. The kids in the photo are 4th year high school students along with the Volunteer who is leading them through a a team building exercise....
This photo was taken in Kenya near the Peace Corps training town in June 2011. On a trip to collect local foods from the rural farms, Peace Corps trainee, Andrea Flynn-Schneider, ran into these Maasi women carrying food back to their homes....
This palace was built by Samuel Doe. It is in ruins now.... abandoned years ago, yet his family refuses to sell it for less than a million dollars. It was a very spooky place to walk around, but filled with history and remnants of what was.
This picture was taken of me with some local kids in Santa Barbara, Honduras in January of 2010. It was the first sunny day after weeks of rain. Some the kids wove flowers into my hair as we enjoyed the sunshine on my porch.
This is a photo taken on my porch in Concepcion del Sur in the department of Santa Barbara, Honduras. After two weeks of cold, rainy, weather in January 2010, the sun finally came out. While sitting outside, enjoying the end of the rainy season,...
This photo was taken in Buchanan, Liberia while visiting another Volunteer. We were hanging out on the beach when this little boy came up to show us his catch of the day.
Children; Teachers and students; Water and sanitation; Health
I took this photo during a Hygiene Education Seminar I was conducting in my site of Concepcion del Sur, Santa Barbara, Honduras in 2009. I invented a game to drive home the importance of hand washing, where one student started as a "germ" on one...
I took this photo in February of 2010, during the inauguration of a water system designed by a Peace Corps Volunteer. It took several years to complete the project, and this woman wanted to make sure I got a picture of her daughter, Katy, named...
This photo was taken in Southeastern Liberia in the middle of the rainy season. We were on our way from Greenville to Zwedru after a WFP training. Our driver thought we could make it through a huge mud hole if he went fast enough.. but he was...
Why go to the market when the market will come to you? This little boy is selling clothes out of a wheelbarrow. He will walk around town and the surrounding villages selling his goodies.
In order to get into the capital of Monrovia, I would have to pass through this market. It has basically taken over the road, causing major disruptions! On a good day, it takes about an hour to go less than a mile... You have to dodge people, wheel...
I took this photo on July 20th, 2008, in Concepcion del Sur, Santa Barbara, Honduras. This date marks the Dia de Lempira in Honduras, when the nation celebrates their cultural history and honors Chief Lempira, a Lencan warrior who unified hundreds...