Youth development; Business development; Host community
A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Another Volunteer is assigned to the government farm cooperative of Machakos as administrative advisor.
During Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World), our campers were paired with local orphans for a games day. This particular game consisted of a relay where participants had to race towards a plate of flour to out M&Ms with their mouths. Predictably, it...
I took this photo in 2001, while working with a community member, and good friend, Miguel. He works in the forestry and cattle industries in Eastern Honduras.
This photo was taken outside City Hall in Uzgorhod, Ukraine on October 3rd, 2006. The event was an International Seminar where I had made a presentation on Strategic Parnterships. Included in the Photo: are myself and other Volunteers as well as...
With the fellow members of the American Cultural Center at the Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv which was opened in collaboration with the US Embassy. We had lots of fun creating the English library, English Speaking club and the monthly...
During 2001 and 2002 I taught computer classes to high school children in my town in Eastern Honduras. We studied the basics of Microsoft Word and Excel.
This is a photo of Alphonse, the business adminstrator of the artisans' cooperative, with whom I worked very closely during my time in Mora. He save enough money to build a new house, with the help of family and friends in the village of...
Dominique organized a pottery exchange between master potters from her home in Nebraska and master potters in her village of service in Amizmiz, Morocco. This is a photo of Dominique giving her demonstration during this two-day event in 2008.
This is a photo of the most talented basket weaver of the Artisan's Cooperative of Mayo-Ouldeme in Northern Cameroon. I worked closely with this coop group to get established and run a shop selling the wares of all the artisans in the village.
I took this picture of my Coordinator, Natalya, upon my arrival in L'viv, Urkaine in May 2005. I was assigned to work with Natalya at the Institute of Non-Profit Management at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. Shown here with the Settlement Officer. He comments on her, “She does everything. She is doing a good job, very good, very good.”
An ACTION/ Peace Corps Volunteer talks with an Iranian specialist with whom he works in setting up a basic aquatic biology laboratory. The laboratory, which began operation in the summer of 1974 is located at Bandare Pahlavi on the Caspian Sea. His...