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    • Anticipation

    • Anticipation

    • Health; Girls' education

    • 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,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Christmas in Burkina Faso

    • Christmas in Burkina Faso

    • celebrations

    • 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,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • English Competition

    • English Competition

    • Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Youth

    • Posing with a local school – secondary project Every year at site there is an honest English Competition put on by the Volunteers. This competition was started after Volunteers saw the corruption in the local competitions. Many students,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grinding Millet

    • Grinding Millet

    • food and meals

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Mom and Me during the Holiday Season

    • Host Mom and Me during the Holiday Season

    • Host families

    • The holiday season was the most difficult time for me to be away from family and friends. My host mom made sure that I was well taken care of. She wanted me to have a good time and we celebrated the New Year in the same way that they had in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Joyful Drummer

    • Joyful Drummer

    • children; celebrations; music

    • This is a boy really enjoying playing his drum at a religious event for the youth at the end of the school year. Taken in Bagare, Burkina Faso in May, 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kings or Dames?

    • Kings or Dames?

    • teachers and students; games

    • Some of my students came over to my house one day to play Dames, which is an African version of checkers that is much more wild and entertaining. Taken in Bagare, Burkina Faso in May, 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • La Cadena

    • La Cadena

    • Youth; Crafts

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Luis

    • Luis

    • Host community friends

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Melanny

    • Melanny

    • Children

    • This is one of the girls in my neighborhood that comes to a once-per-week afternoon English class, enjoying an ice pop to beat the heat!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • One of the Boys

    • One of the Boys

    • Youth; Education; Teachers and students

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos

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