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- Wedding Day
- celebrations
- 15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitos and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Wedding Bliss
- Weddings; Celebrations; Dance; Traditional dress
- The midwife at a local clinic celebrates on her wedding day in Burkina Faso. The bride is dancing with friends during a Muslim wedding celebration where friends stick money on her while singing and dancing. People all around are using technology...
- Volunteer Photos
- Water Festival
- Children; Celebrations
- This photo was taken in November 2010 Cambodia during the National Water Festival. In this photo three children are watching a boat race.
- Volunteer Photos
- Water Color
- Anniversaries; Celebrations
- I took this picture at the Peace Corps 50th anniversary celebration in Stefan cel Mare park in Chisinau, Moldova in August 2011. The photo shows decorations of balloons on the right hand side, with the Peace Corps logo displayed on the stage in the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Water Balloons
- Anniversaries; Games; Celebrations
- This photo was taken during our 50th Anniversary celebration for Peace Corps. It was held at the community hall (see the name on the building, 'Tranom-pokonolona' literally translated as house of the townspeople) at my site in Madagascar. The sign...
- Volunteer Photos
- Watching
- Children; Celebrations; Sports
- This picture was taken during a village holiday celebration on August 7, 2011 in Ukraine. Each year there is a big celebration for the village of 3500 people. There is a concert, games for children, shaslik (Ukrainian style bbq) dancing, and a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Watching
- International Women's Day; celebrations
- For International Women's Day, the women leaders of Maroua took a day trip to Pouss to meet their Sultan and to Maga to see the fishing and rice production. I had the honor of being invited to pariticipate. Every place we stopped the villagers...
- Volunteer Photos
- warriors
- celebrations
- this photo was taken in march 2004 in Nabukavesi VIllage, Fiji. They were putting on a ceremony to welcome the new computers to the school in my Village.
- Volunteer Photos
- Walking to the Wat
- Celebrations
- Shown here is the entire village in Bankonglom, Wieng Haeng, bringing donations to the temple at the end of the road. The students from the Bankonglom School are in the pink shirts closest to the camera with a teacher in a blue shirt. The temple...
- Volunteer Photos
- Waiting to March
- Celebrations; Children
- This photo includes young girls before marching in their school parade. The event was the Paz del Chaco. The photo was taken on June 11, 2011 in Juan O'Leary.
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteers Relaxing at a Well in Douenza, Mali
- Celebrations; Volunteers
- Featured in this photo are Tom Dunn, Doug TenEyck, Bill Moseley and Rick Heffernan. We were Volunteers in Mali from 1987-89. We gathered in Douenza, Mali in late December, 1987 to celebrate Christmas together.
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteer Birthday Party
- Celebrations; Volunteers; Architecture
- Several Albanian Volunteers sitting on the remains of a Roman colosseum in Apollonia. They came from all over the country to celebrate another PCV's birthday.
- Volunteer Photos
- Viva Bolivia!
- Celebrations; children
- Flag-waving, music, marching and declamations are mandatory for any official event in Bolivia. Often, as in the case of this event, the inauguration of the new teachers' living quarters in the town of Comanche, all the school kids participate....
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Mapping
- Music; Celebrations
- Brining American culture to the village. Fellow Peace Corps Volunteers come together to create a blue-grass festival on market day.
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Event
- Celebrations
- Peace Corps Volunteer life includes a lot of attending local events and that means a lot of waiting...for the important guests to finally show up, for the speeches to finish, etc. Here's a photo taken of me hanging out with other community members...
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Dinner
- Animals; Celebrations
- In this photo, I am with the mother of the family who took good care of my when I was working deep inside Tazekka National Park. Here we are getting ready to prepare this goat for the Aid L'Kabir celebrations held about a month after Ramadan. ...
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Children and Me
- Children; Celebrations
- During one of many local celebrations, I took a photo with children in my village. The celebration was near my house and these were the kids I saw regularly. The picture was taken on September 27, 2009 in Batié, Cameroon.
- Volunteer Photos
- Vegetarian Festival in Phuket
- Ceremonies; Celebrations
- The Vegetarian Festival is an annual event in Thailand, celebrated especially by Chinese Thais. Specially chosen devotees prepare physically and spiritually before the festival and follow a vegetarian diet. During the event they partake in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Urairat, English Major, Petchburi Teacher's College
- Clothing; Celebrations; Teachers and students
- Urairat in new graduation dress. A wonderful woman and student. Urairat came from a poor family in Surin, Thailand and is now an English Teach in Surin. Bangkok, Thailand, 1973.
- Volunteer Photos
- Universal Symbol
- Children; Celebrations
- This was taken in October 2010 after the inauguration of 8 water faucets for my school, La Felicidad, in Guatemala. Pictured here are me and two students after the inauguration.
- Volunteer Photos