This is one of the health committees I worked with in Mtachi village, Katete. These hard working people wrote a proposal for a new bore hole and several new latrines. The cases of diarrhea went down due to their hard work and dedication.
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.
My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, where I was posted, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make s’mores and the...
My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, in the North Region of Cameroon, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make...
This is a photo of myself and some of my favorite people in Cameroon! This picture was taken in 2010 at my friend/coworker, Alphonse’s house. He was the most honest, kind and hard working person I was honored to meet. In the picture are his...
This is a picture of one of the sisters of my host family, where I stayed during Pre-Service Training, outside of Garoua, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon. I was always welcomed back to the house after a long day of training with the...
This photo was taken during my best friend's baby naming ceremony in a local church in a fishing village in the Western Region of Ghana. The photo shows a line of women bringing the newborn child to the front to be dedicated and officially named....
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...
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...
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...
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 is a photo of myself and some of my favorite people in Meri, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon! This picture was taken in 2010 at my friend/coworker, Alphonse’s house. He was the most honest, kind and hard working person I was...
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,...
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...
This picture was taken in the Rastafarian community of Linden, Guyana. In this photo a baby is found relaxing in a hammock as many in the local community do.