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    • San Miguel Ingenio Girls Soccer Team

    • San Miguel Ingenio Girls Soccer Team

    • Sports

    • We took this picture after receiving our new soccer uniforms. The girls had written letters to local establishments, and a fast food restaurant bought them shirts and shorts. The girls on the team were able to travel to other local communities a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Sharing Donated School Supplies

    • Teachers and students; Schools

    • This photo was taken of me while distributing supplies that were donated by an elementary school in the U.S. to a rural Mayan school in Guatemala. As an agricultural extentionist from '99 - '01, I often worked in schools such as this one, helping...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Biodigestor

    • Biodigestor

    • Technology

    • This photo was taken during a biodigestor capacitacion held on June 10th, 2011. It was done in conjunction with EOS, a sustainable technology organization that was created with a past Volunteer. My community counterpart, the community leader, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Husband and Wife

    • Husband and Wife

    • Weddings

    • I met my wife while buying vegetables from her in the market of Ipala, Chiquimula, Guatemala, and we were married about three years later. This photo is of my wife on our wedding day, and her various relatives who came to help with the cooking for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Veterinary Laboratory Technician

    • Veterinary Laboratory Technician

    • Animals; Health; Knight Foundation

    • July 1974 PCV Elinor Leland, 25, of Catonsville, Md. is assigned to Belize, Central America as a Peace Corps veterinary laboratory technician. Her job is to assist the local veterinartian in giving injections or medication and studying animal...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Works with Women to Sew Carpets

    • Volunteer Works with Women to Sew Carpets

    • Artisans

    • This Volunteer is an artisan advisor and crafts teacher with Cooperative Chiscolapa in a new project to raise sisal (“kaboya”) for twinning and sewing into artful carpets using pre-Columbia Nicaraguan designs. Here the Volunteer works with...
    • Agency Photos
    • It's Not Too Late to Learn

    • It's Not Too Late to Learn
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    • Griselda [right side] is a mother of 4 kids, amazing wife and great community leader. She is also the treasurer of a microfinancing enterprise in a small rural community in Costa Rica. On May 16th, 2011, our day started at 9am with coffee and some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Craft Time

    • Craft Time

    • Artisans; elders

    • I have been serving in Belize for the past two years. My primary assignment is working with a small mayan womens group that runs a craft center. Part of the way I decided to integrate better was to learn how to make the crafts just like them. This...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Belize PCVs

    • Belize PCVs

    • celebrations

    • For our groups first Christmas away from home in 2009 we gathered together on Christmas Eve to celebrate. Here is a picture of all our legs and feet. Neat to see how different we are but we're all fighting the same cause!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Searching

    • Searching

    • Children

    • Robert "RJ" Harper in the foothills of Antigua, Guatamala searching for new indigenous projects and clothes weavers.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girl in Blue

    • Girl in Blue

    • children

    • A girl in Mexico paused to look at me for a moment while watching a performance at a Caravan de Cultura near the mercado where her mother works. I was enchanted by her posture, intense gaze, and the colors of her turquoise blue dress and silver...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girl in Meat Market

    • Girl in Meat Market

    • children

    • A young girl enjoyed an ice cream cone in the doorway of a carniceria, or meat market, in Mexico while waiting for her mother. I took this photo during a break from a Caravan de Cultura, where the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and...
    • Volunteer Photos

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