This photo is from the late 1970's in the Kasai Occidental region of DR Congo (then known as Zaire). I'm behind the wheel and fellow Volunteer is helping line up the planks. We were both Peace Corps Regional Representatives which was a 3rd year...
Portion of our fishculture training group on top of Mt. Kahuzi-Biega near Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo 12/31/1978. Kahuzi-Biega is the home of a group of mountain gorillas. Our objective that day was to get to the top and although...
Taken in 1988 as we waited on the pond bank for the first harvest of fish for this group of farmers. They showed me how to make hats out of big forest leaves for protection from the hot equatorial sun.
Sylvain Mukobo was among the first to build his pond in the Manga Fish Farmer's Association. With this harvest, he motivated a second group to invest in fish farming.
Fish farmer Papa Ngwanza adds compost to his pond with his two boys. The program was called Projet Pisiculture Familiale, or Family Fish Project, and had just celebrated its 10th anniversary when this picture was taken in 1988.
Bandundu area aquaculture volunteer supervisor Fred Marten feeding the fish at the Kikwit demonstration station in 1980. The material he is throwing into the water was probably chaf from a nearby rice mill.