This is a photo of workers from the indigenous communities that my counterpart organization collaborated with making repairs to the Visitors' Center in the wildlife reserve we managed, as part of an infrastructure development project we coordinated.
This is a photo of a wetland in the wildlife reserve I helped manage--a home for flocks of birds and large fish. The characteristics of the wetlands varied by season: during some parts of the year, the entire area in this photo would be flooded; at...
This photo was taken at the Belize Zoo. Peace Corps Volunteer Christen Eure assisted a special education class in a field trip to the zoo where this sign is. The zoo features only rescued animals indigenous to Belize. The student with Christen...
Business development; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture
This is a picture of some of the 25 women who are learning to to make vinegar, wine vinegar, and herb-infused vinegar. The man in the picture is the agricultural agent who is teaching them. They come every week from all over the valley. They hope...
I was visiting with the police adminstrator in the village on the front step of his residence. The village youth gathered around me and we were dissussing the day's school activities. The children were a very happy bunch and were quick to share a...
This was taken on a Sunday afternoon right outside my house on the beach in Belize. I adopted a dog from the streets and the kids ended up loving him just as much as me. We would teach "Leo" tricks and the kids would be in utter shock that dogs...
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
This picture was taken during our pre-service training (PST) in Belize, April 2011. We are sitting on the steps of a "board house." Every night the girls would come over and say, "Miss Cat, you could tell us a story?"
Host families; Weddings; Pre-service training (PST)
This photo is of our pre-service training host family granddaughter, six year-old Talia, while waiting for the start of a wedding ceremony on July 9, 2011. Our host parents' nephew was to be married that afternoon in San Ignacio, Cayo Distrcit,...
Peace Corps, Belize, in a village with a population of about 150. Just a typical Sunday afternoon on the beach with some of my students and my adopted puppy, Leo.
I took this photo on Sunday 8/7/2011 at my neighbors quince anos celebration. My husband and I attended the ceremony of the quincinera and following the service, the delicious lunch games for the children commenced. After a rousing and slightly...
We held a fundraiser in the village to raise money for the completion of the community center. Events included sport competitions: soccer, basketball, bike races, swimming races, dance, chicken barbacue and a dance "Jump Up." The photo shows a San...
I took this photo at the end of a long day of harvesting and preparing the first crop of habenaro peppers. The peppers are in and on the two vehicles parked behind the villagers packed in reused mesh onion bags. The peppers had been the project...
This photo goes with a previous photo of the the San Jose Pepper Growers group shot around the loaded vehicles. This was a detail of the process of stemming the peppers to prepare them for being placed in the bags for shipping. The work is taking...
Kathryn and Francisco Fernandez are Volunteers in Belmopan, Belize. This photo was taken at in Bermudan Landing at a baboon sanctuary during our first week in country as Trainees. Teaching us to hull rice, among other traditional practices, was...
This photo shows Volunteer Kimberly Joyce along with students from the Salvation Army School in Belize City, Belize. We are all taking a moment to pose for a picture while spending time outdoors in the school yard during recess.