My Associate Peace Corps Director (APCD) suggested me to do this project with my students. It was a huge success and the students and faculty loved the project.
I took this photo on April 14, 2011, while visiting a fellow Volunteer for an Easter celebration. When we climbed a small bluff that overlooks a small city in southeastern Burkina Faso, we were accompanied by a bevy of school children known by my...
I was sitting on the inside "veranda" of a hut in Guinea in 1996. I was visiting the family of one of my English students. It was a very hot and sunny day in late January. We all gathered inside the mud and straw hut to avoid the heat. The children...
This photo was taken on November 12, 2010, a month into the training of the 23rd group of Volunteers to serve in Burkina Faso. The Small Enterprise Development Volunteers took a field trip to visit a local artisan group in Koudougou, and pictured...
I used to pass children all the time on my way to work. This young boy always impressed me with his imagination and inventive mind. Kids don't have a lot of toys in rural Guinea, so they make them!
This is a picture of the village Iman (center), my fellow Volunteer, Allyson (left) and myself (right) in front of the health post we were building in rural Guinea. The Imam was my partner in the project and became a very close friend despite our...
This photo was taken on November 20, 2010, halfway through the training of the 23rd group of Volunteers to serve in Burkina Faso. It shows a group of small enterprise development Volunteers learning to make liquid soap from components, a skill...
My neighbor's children caring for each other while their mother worked in the market. This little girl carried her baby sister on her back all day long.
After a lesson to elementary school children on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, students take a pledge to remain AIDS-free and sign with handprints on the AIDS mural. A community member helps children with the handprinting process. This activity...