Pinky, my student at the Department of Youth Development, is teaching a hygiene class in a poor part of Comilla. One part of our class involved a community outreach project.
This is my partner and I on the day of the long-awaited opening of our Youth Resource Center. The building had been a library in Soviet times. The town gave us the building, and we worked - with many youth volunteers and PCPP funds - to convert...
Most of the work in my village was centered with the local youth council. One day a year, on international youth day, they sponsored a village-wide "Free Hugs" event. This is some of the youth council members, with myself and my partner,...
April 2009 - Grenada
The boys of J.W. Fletcher Memorial R.C. School participated in a service learning project to learn a little about culture with the construction of kites.
My assignment was as a manager of a print shop. We created flanograph pictures to teach women about the natal process and others to teach men about a cooperative project to grow peanuts. I spoke French to the Nigerien and English to the Nigerian,...
Dec 2009 - The Programme for Adolescent Mothers.
The students who attend the program hosted a Fun Day at the end of the term. Here they were practicing yoga with their babies.
April 2010 - Grenada.
The students of New Life Organisation (NewLO) celebrating earth day by picking up trash, planting flowers around their school and creating musical instruments from recycled items
Peace Corps Volunteers partner with St. Kitts UNESCO each year during carnival celebration season to organize a "Carnival Clean-up Troupe." The troupe follows the carnival parade to clean up trash and raise awareness about environmental...
The sheep herders in the Bran area of rural Romania sometimes pick up and carry a lamb who is not keeping pace with the herd. This lamb got a ride on the herder's donkey.
I built this stove along with my counterpart for this woman and her mother. It uses only a fraction of the wood that an open fire uses and is made out of easily obtainable materials.
A group of Peace Corps Volunteers are pictured crossing a bridge, typical of those in the semi-tropical monsoon country of East Pakistan. The small river serves as bathing facility, sewage system, laundry area and source of water supply for the...
While eating an ice cream, this Peace Corps Volunteer and the owner of the post office and general store talk about a coming meeting of the Hardburley Improvement Association.
Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...