This photo was taken last week in a park in my town. The boy sitting with me is showing me how to make a necklace by stringing together flowers. Photographer is another boy the same age that loves using my camera.
This photo was taken a few weeks ago at a health fair in Ecuador. My counterpart agency is Plan Internacional, and part of our booth included proper condom use demonstrations. These are students from a local high school that attended the fair,...
Usually the highlight of my day is hanging out with these kids and their friends, who shine shoes at the center of my town. The problem is they should be in school, and some of them have never gone to school and can't read. I figured I'd be...
This is one of my favorite people at site, Luis. The picture was taken by another kid his age, who loves using my camera. It was a morning of some mini photography lessons, not that I am qualified to be giving photography lessons. We are...
Children; Natural disasters; Art; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation
Following the tsunami of 2009, Peace Corps Volunteers partnered with the Red Cross to promote water conservation and provide an afternoon of enjoyment in the midst of sadness and loss. Volunteers from groups 80, 81 and 82, led by Volunteer Joey...
A friend sent me a miniature Christmas tree, which no one there had ever seen. So I got the opportunity to share how Christmas is celebrated in America and learn about how they celebrate it there. This picture was taken in my village of Bagare,...
My friend invited me to his village to meet his family and to learn about how they live. They taught me how to grind millet into flour by pushing a smooth rock over a stationary rock with grains of millet in between. This picture was taken near...