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    • Yoga in the DR

    • Yoga in the DR

    • Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken during a Chicas Brillantes conference in February 2011. Volunteer Phoebe is teaching 50 young Dominican girls how to use yoga to relieve stress, build self-confidence and stay healthy. It was part of a 3-day conference that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Writing in my Journal

    • Writing in my Journal

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken in 1990. Sitting at my dining table, I wrote in my journal daily during my Peace Corps service in Antigua, West Indies. On the wall above me is a map of the Eastern Caribbean where I called home at this time in my life. On...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2010

    • World AIDS Day 2010

    • Celebrations; HIV/AIDS

    • This was a World AIDS Day March that I organized along with New Life Organization in Grenville, Grenada. We distributed information about HIV and AIDS, a list of places that provide free testing and counseling, and red awareness ribbons.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken with my host family shortly before training ended in September of 1984. They took such good care of me. At first they attempted to serve me meals that they thought were Americanized. When they realized how much I liked...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What it Means

    • What it Means

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A student at a school in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean) writes out the definition of HIV/AIDS at an educational seminar in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention facilitated by Volunteers Katie and Sheena.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We're Family

    • We're Family

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken after a year of service, in June of 2004, when I went back to my training site in the community of Koujol, not far from Archaie, Haiti, to visit my host family. The little girl on the right, Kenya, was born during my 3...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Water and sanitation; Housing

    • Out my second story window, you can see my latrine (orange door) and kitchen straight ahead and shower to the left. Some of the year, there was a water basin, but I treated the water with bleach because there was algae and mosquitoes.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills

    • I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • True or False

    • True or False

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS prevention session at the Kingston YMCA in Kingston, Jamaica on April 23, 2012. This picture shows a group of boys raising their hand to true or false statements related to HIV/AIDS prevention.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Triptych

    • Triptych

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • This photo was taken in a little alcove in the yard of the primary school where I served. The enclosure is made by heavy foliage overgrowing a barbed-wire fence. The students had taken in some chairs, in various states of disrepair, to sit on and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Dominican Farmer

    • Traditional Dominican Farmer

    • host community friends; animals

    • This photograph was taken in the mountains of the Dminican Republic where my husband and I served two years working on an organic pesticide project for coffee growers. In this photograph is our host brother, Iselso Marmol, who was a traditonal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Rights of Children

    • The Rights of Children

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo of a mural done on the front of an elementary school in Dominican Republic by the group Brilliant Girls. The mural depicts children's rights and features some of the painters and their proud work! One of the rights says freedom...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • Art

    • There are 4 murals that depict the history of Anguilla from the time of Columbus, to the present day, circa 1981. This was painted by a local artist as a gift to the people of Anguilla, and is from a mural in the main government building.
    • Volunteer Photos

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