I love introducing my children to friends I made when serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. In this photo my son Alberto is playing soccer with Enrique Reynoso, the son of a friend I met during community base training in Santa Cruz del...
This is a photo of Tomarjay & myself during an afternoon football game. At the time, Tomarjay was a grade 6 student at the primary school. He and I traveled with out school team to the neighboring village to watch the boys football match. Here,...
Peace Corps Morocco began a collaboration with Morocco Special Olympics with 20 Volunteers assisting at a regional event in Tangers in May 2011. In the photo my husband, Jim (YD Morocco 2010-2012) awards a Special Olympic medal to a young boy...
José Maldonado leads the crocodile race by seconds! The photo is taken in my town's Kindergarten in Honduras. In an effort to promote literacy, I started "Story Time" there, showing teachers the importance of telling stories and how to tell them...
While serving in Jamaica (05-07) I worked at Mocho Primary School (what we would call an elementary school). I went through the school when I was first there and took many photos of the students, including several striking portraits. In this...
This is a photo of an elementary school boy. In the afternoons some students would come to my house, which was across from the school. In this photo this fourth grade boy is standing in front of my door, looking directly and probingly at me. The...
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...
I returned to visit my counterparts at AFEDES in Santiago Sacatepequez Guatemala March 24, 2010. My counterpart and dear friend, Milvian Aspuac was married and had a baby since I returned to my site in 2008. This photo is of my son, Milvian, her...
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...
A group of Elementary School School students play the Parachute game in Guatemala. All of the elementary school students participated in a day of games and activities organized by the local municipality. Children in this part of Guatemala often...
This photo was taken in Sitio Banawen, San Felipe, Zambales, Philippines during a visit to the Aeta community on December 2010. This is a indigenous community that were affected my the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Yearly, my organization hikes...
My Host sister eating a mango in peak mango season (March to May) in Colorado de Abangares. My rural fishing village community in lovely Guanacste, Costa Rica.