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    • Not Just Another Disco

    • Not Just Another Disco

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Women's Movement

    • Taken in Bulgaria on March 8th, 2010, which is International Women's Day. The photo shows a volunteer dancing with her students at the end of the celebration for the women of the village.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Easter Eggs

    • Easter Eggs

    • Celebrations; Children

    • Taken in March 2010 in Bulgaria. This is Sevgi, and she is holding the two eggs she just dyed in preparation for Easter. Although the village is primarily Muslim, people there appreciate and sometimes participate in Christian holidays.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Boiling Wolf Traps

    • Boiling Wolf Traps

    • Wildlife

    • Cedar boils the modified leghold traps in herbs, along with our clothing and shoes, at the farmhouse in the village of Sadovic in western Bulgaria. With members of Balkani Wildlife Society, the next day we set the trapline and checked it twice a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rangers at Dinner

    • Rangers at Dinner

    • Environment

    • After a long day of tracking wolves, rangers (and Volunteer C.A. Woulfe) have a dinner of bread and rakia in a forestry unit building without water or electricity in the Central Balkan National Park.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Craftsmen Guild Meeting

    • Craftsmen Guild Meeting
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    • One of the first meetings of a new Aprilci Craftsmens Guild in the Tourist Office, with a Volunteer, Marcella Crider, crafts persons, and the Director of the Tourist Bureau, Doncho Pachnikov (Notice that the heat was not on that day).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Aprilci Telecenter

    • Aprilci Telecenter

    • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); Celebrations

    • The Aprilci Telecenter opened 15 September 2001, with Bulgarian and American flags flying. The photo shows the Mayor, Sawmill owner, Telecenter manager, and Volunteer.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baba Tsetsa and Metodi

    • Baba Tsetsa and Metodi

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken on Christmas Day 2009, in celo Banitsa at the home of my host parents, Baba Tsetsa and Metodi. I spent Christmas with Tsetsa and Metodi's son, Ivo, and his wife and two daughters in Vratsa. This was the first time that I had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Winter Fun

    • Winter Fun

    • Youth; Sports

    • This photo was taken in the winter of 2009. Even though the temperature can get pretty cold in the Winter it does not stop the children from playing outside. Sledding is the favored pastime when the snow hits the ground.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A is for Apple

    • A is for Apple

    • Youth; Schools; Children

    • This first grade class at Paiisi Hilendarski school in Southwest Bulgaria is taking pride in their newly created picture dictionaries.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Happy Easter

    • Happy Easter

    • Celebrations; Food and meals; Elders

    • A baba giving away dyed Easter eggs and kozunak, a traditional Easter sweet bread, to wish life, health, and luck.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Heart Beans

    • We Heart Beans

    • Elders; Food and meals; Cooking

    • Bulgarians eat a lot beans. This picture was taken in late September after the pods of the beans had dried on the stalk. Ahmed is taking the pleasure of beating all of the dried beans out of their shells and after this labor intensive work they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baba and Blueberries

    • Baba and Blueberries

    • Elders; Food and meals; Cooking

    • During the summertime in Bulgaria people work very hard to grow and gather food in their fields and from the forest in order to can and consume throughout the winter. One such example is blueberries. Wild blueberries are abundant in the forests...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stringing Tobacco

    • Stringing Tobacco

    • Elders; Agriculture

    • In the Rhodope Region of Bulgaria growing tobacco is a common source of income and sometimes the only. During the last few weeks of July and August villagers are found in shaded spots along the village road stringing tobacco leaves on twine in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Play Time

    • Play Time

    • Youth; Schools; Dance; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken on May 24th, 2010 at the primary school in a Bulgarian village. It was the last day of schools for the first graders. These girls are dancing a traditional Bulgarian dance, called the Horo, in celebration.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning New Tricks

    • Learning New Tricks

    • Teachers and students; Cooking; Youth; Children; Schools; Camps and clubs

    • Taken in April, 2010 in Bulgaria, this picture shows an after school group of children learning how to make pitkas, traditional Bulgarian rolls, for the first time. It was taken in the community center of the village, and the woman frying the...
    • Volunteer Photos

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