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    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Children; Host community; Ceremonies

    • Welcoming Ceremony at the Wat: None of us understand much of anything that is going on around us, but we understand when a little girl is diligently collecting every one of the best-smelling flowers in the room for her own. Much to our amusement,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vegetarian Festival in Phuket

    • 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
    • The Third Wise Man: Pase del Niño

    • The Third Wise Man: Pase del Niño

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies

    • I took this photo on December 19th, 2008 in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. A local boy's mother is preparing him for the parade of the traveling child (niño viajero) through the city of Cuenca. The main parade in Cuenca takes place in the week...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Coronation Feast of King George Tupou V

    • The Coronation Feast of King George Tupou V

    • Ceremonies; Celebrations; Traditional dress

    • This photo was taken August 1, 2008 on the grounds of the Tongan Royal Palace in Nuku'Alofa at the Coronation feast. The photo is of Princess Pilolevu's daughter (little girl) about to enter the feast tent to perform the ta'olunga for her uncle,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bunica Welcomes Me to Romania

    • The Bunica Welcomes Me to Romania

    • Host community friends; Ceremonies

    • Just after visiting my first commemoration of the dead ceremony at the local Romanian Orthodox biserica, the bunica, who literally lives, works, eats and sleeps in her bucataria, gave me a plate of homemade goodness, a lovely bunch of garden...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Baptism

    • The Baptism

    • Ceremonies; Religion; Traditional dress

    • I participated in many religious festivities in my predominantly Islamic community. On the seventh morning after a child’s birth, the baptism takes place where the infant is blessed and formally named. Here, my friend Kadi holds her newborn. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing-In Day

    • Swearing-In Day

    • Swearing-in ceremonies

    • This is taken in front of the American Embassy in Port Morseby just after Jean was sworn-in. Clayton was sworn-in 10 days earlier with the rest of the cohort. Jean's security clearance was delayed - Jean received an individual swearing in from the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing-in

    • Swearing-in

    • Swearing-in ceremonies; Traditional dress

    • This photo was taken during our swearing in ceremony in Morocco. I wore a traditional l'kswa, which is a unique dress/style of clothing of the region to which I had been assigned.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing-In

    • Swearing-In

    • Swearing-in ceremonies

    • This photo was taken in January 1988 after our Swearing-In Ceremony. Many of our trainers are in this photo as well as PCV's. These gatherings were always a good time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing In with Loret Miller Ruppe

    • Swearing In with Loret Miller Ruppe

    • Swearing-in ceremonies; Volunteers

    • This photo was taken during the swearing-in ceremony of the third and largest group of Volunteers to begin service in Haiti in 1984. Loret Miller Ruppe, the then-Director of the Peace Corps, came to Haiti to officiate. This photo shows eight of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing In Ceremony

    • Swearing In Ceremony

    • Swearing-in ceremonies

    • This photo was taken in Accra Ghana August 1976. After weeks of language, and cultural training we were ready to be sworn in by Howard Stevenson(Peace Corp) and Shirley Temple Black (Ambasador)
    • Volunteer Photos

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