This photo was taken on June 9, 2007 in Bansko, Macedonia when the Little League baseball team from the village of Novo Selo traveled to play a game with the team from Bansko. The teams were coached by two Volunteers who wished to introduce the...
This photo was taken on September 27, 2008 in Koleshino, Macedonia at the First Annual NovoFest. The local municipality of Novo Selo wished to develop their tourist industry during my Peace Corps assignment in their local economic development...
This photo was taken in Kazakhstan on May 20, 2011. The little boy is the youngest son of a family I am close to here. Even though he was the smallest of our explorers on this mountain picnic, he was always at least 50 meters ahead of us, scoping...
I caught this little girl in mid-air, purse in hand, chasing after the posada, the patrón saint procession through the pueblita of San Jose. Posadas tend to be somber affairs, participants chanting with low voices, pacing slowly and reverently...
'Por, para y con la gente' is an expression in Spanish that means 'by, for and with the people.' It is a philosophy of sustainable development that involves the people in the process of their own change - and it is the process we are using where I...
Mexico, January 2011. This is Serapio, my favorite elote man in my site, where corn is a staple and is growing tall and juicy this season. He pushes his cart through town – his colonia is Jacarandas - quietly attracting his customers – while...
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress; Elders
Esperanza is the senora I pass every day at the entrance to my office, moaning for a contribution, one hand outstretched the other waving a laminated story about her predicament; and every day I must greet here with a smile and a decision, often...
This photo was taken in San Francisco la Union, Guatemala in 2009 when I was serving as health volunteer. This is my neighbor on her roof. I went over and they dressed me up in the indigenous clothing "traje" to take pictures. Little Jacquelin...
This photo was taken in San Francisco la Union, Guatemala in 2009. This is dona Margarita, her three children, the two masons and myself in front of her new water tank. I served as a health Volunteer and built 14 water tanks and 19 cement floors.
This photo was taken in San Francisco la Union, Guatemala in 2009. I was serving as a rural home preventive health Volunteer. The health center, local midwives and myself put together three community wide raffles to raise funds to pruchase an...
This is my best friend and the town nurse, Mari. The picture was taken in San Fracisco la Union, Guatemala in 2009. I was just about to COS and they invited me and the new Volunteer over for a goodbye / welcome dinner. This is Mari in her kitchen.
I took this photo at a naming ceremony (Koolio) in 1981 in Jambanjelly, The Gambia, West Africa. When a child is seven days old he or she is given a name, and the village comes to celebrate the occasion. The mother (with face covered by material)...
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the field of education. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.