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    • Gallo Pinto, Peace Corps Style

    • Gallo Pinto, Peace Corps Style

    • Food and meals

    • This is my version of Costa Rica's most traditional breakfast, gallo pinto. Gallo pinto literally means "speckled rooster", and this dish gets its name from its speckled appearance of the two main ingredients, beans and rice. The dish also includes...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Akee Fruit

    • Akee Fruit

    • Food and meals

    • This photo is of the Akee Fruit eaten on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica. Careful, its poisonous until it opens! It is usually prepared with fish and vegetables, and tastes delicious!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pupusas

    • Pupusas

    • Food and meals; Celebrations

    • Pupusas are the national snack of El Salvador. They are made with corn or rice flour, and stuffed with cheese and other ingredients (beans, chicharron, ayote, etc.). Pupusas are eaten in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but El Salvador claims...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Reforestation Campaign

    • Community Reforestation Campaign

    • Environment; Forestry; Work; Host community friends

    • I had this photo taken of me and my friend, Jonnys, during a community reforestation campaign in Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua in August, 1997. We are shown planting a Mexican cedar tree. I had established a tree nursery and organized a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Artists Cooperative

    • Women's Artists Cooperative

    • Artisans

    • The first official meeting of our Mayan women's arts collective- part of the larger cultural preservation/ tourism project called Runawal Tinamit, Aldea El Pajuil, Chicaman, El Quiche. El Pajuil, where my primary project was based, is a small ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • El Pajuil/ Ju' Yuk

    • El Pajuil/ Ju' Yuk
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    • Women and Children meeting me during my walk through the village of El Pajuil, Chicaman, El Quiche Guatemala. In Poqomchi Mayan the village is called Ju' yuk which means "at the mountain's top".
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Group in Todos Santos, Guatemala

    • Women's Group in Todos Santos, Guatemala

    • Women's movement

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Abimael and I worked to organize this women's group in a tiny community about a 30 minute hike from the nearest road. We encouraged the municipality to help the women start a community bank, and we conducted trainings on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Las Dos Carmenes

    • Las Dos Carmenes

    • Host families

    • This is my PC mom Carmen, who lives in La Guacima, Costa Rica, with my daughter, Carmen. I stayed with her and her family during my PC training in 1979-80. I have stayed in contact with them since my PC days and have visited them several times. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map

    • World Map

    • Teachers and Students; World Map Project

    • This is a photo of Volunteer Aliyya painting a world map with her students in Guatemala.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Jose Domingo

    • Jose Domingo

    • Host Families

    • This is my host brother having his hair washed by my host mom. He was born only a week after I arrived at my site. Because of that, it was always easy to remember how old he was. I took this picture close to the end of my service, so that means...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Cute Little Neighbor

    • My Cute Little Neighbor

    • Host community friends; Children; Traditional dress

    • This is a photo of my 3-year old neighbor who is a cousin of my host siblings. She is wearing the traditional woven clothing typical of rural Mayan communities in Guatemala.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV Workshop

    • HIV Workshop

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth; Youth development

    • Volunteer Aliyya Shelley giving an interactive HIV workshop to high school and university students in Guatemala (June 2009).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Homemade Flags for the World Cup

    • Homemade Flags for the World Cup

    • Sports; Celebrations; Youth; Children; World Map Project

    • I took this photo before the first game of the World Cup 2010 in my site in the mountains of Panama. These are children of an indigenous group and have no electricity to watch the games. Therefore, we listen to all the games on my radio. Here they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fresh Coconuts!

    • Fresh Coconuts!

    • Children; Environment; Food and meals; Agriculture

    • A child from my village would climb the coconut tree in my back yard and get coconuts - one for me and the others to sell.
    • Volunteer Photos

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