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    • Designing AIDS Sign Vegetable Plot

    • Designing AIDS Sign Vegetable Plot

    • HIV/AIDS

    • The photo was taken at North-West Province of South Africa in a school called Goakganya Primary School where Peace Corps had their permagarden training with PCVs & Counterparts. The workshop was held on the 2-3 April 2012 and the picture was taken...
    • Staff Photos
    • Mongolia Basketball Team

    • Mongolia Basketball Team

    • Sports

    • Each 4th of July Peace Corps Mongolia hosts a basketball tournament with a team of trainees playing a team of currenlty serving Volunteers and staff. In 2006, a closely fought battle came down to the wire before the Staff/Volunteer team escaped...
    • Staff Photos
    • Welcome Back to the U.S.

    • Welcome Back to the U.S.

    • Dignitaries

    • Upon my return from 13+ years abroad with the Peace Corps, I was invited by Senator Dodd to come and speak about my experience overseas with Peace Corps.
    • Staff Photos
    • Girl on the Street

    • Girl on the Street

    • Host community friends

    • I took this photo in the town of La Cruz, Narino, Colombia in 1966. Seeing and talking to this girl in my town, I thought I should take a snap of her. Amid rural poverty and hardship, this girl just radiated happiness and well-being.
    • Staff Photos
    • Mongolian Summer Sunset

    • Mongolian Summer Sunset
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    • This photo was taken in the summer of 2005 in Selenge sum (village) of Bulgan aimag (province) where I served as a Volunteer from 2002-2004. These colors in the sky are a very common sight during summer sunsets. My niece Bolormaa is standing on...
    • Staff Photos
    • St. Lucia Disability Camp

    • St. Lucia Disability Camp

    • Youth; Camps and clubs

    • A disabiled teenager was walking with difficulty at a Peace Corps supported Disability Camp in St. Lucia. I asked if I could take her picture. She first said, "No, I am not pretty." I said "Yes you are pretty!"and she allowed me to take her...
    • Staff Photos
    • Freedom

    • Freedom

    • Children; Terrain; Climate

    • This photo was taken on the edge of Selenge sum (village) of Bulgan aimag (province) where I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2002-2004. Selenge sum is also known as "Inget Tolgoi" to Mongolians and just "Inget" to the locals. This photo is...
    • Staff Photos
    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 3

    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 3

    • Cooking

    • As part of my various tasks as a SEAD Volunteer, I helped develop micro-credit businesses. I traveled to the homes of rug maker, cake bakers, and bread makers. All the people I met I tried to help, with advise and education in western ways of...
    • Staff Photos
    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 2

    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 2

    • Cooking

    • While working as a SEAD Volunteer, I helped Seda make and market her product unlevan lavash bread. I would travel to her mountian village, Ayagabts, Armenia, to work with her. I managed a micro-credit loan program as well during my time at my site...
    • Staff Photos
    • Baking Lavash Bread in Pit

    • Baking Lavash Bread in Pit

    • Cooking

    • As a small business consultant (SEAD) I was advising this village women Seda, on how to sell her product, lavash bread. I witnessed her bake 100 lavash at a time in a wood fired ceramic pit in the mountain village of Aygabats, Armenia. It was...
    • Staff Photos
    • Another Slow Day in Antigua

    • Another Slow Day in Antigua

    • Architecture

    • This photo was taken in the central square of Antigua, Guatemala in 2009. It was one of many visits there from where I was living in El Salvador, and I just loved the background colors and the expression on the girl's face. I pulled this off my...
    • Staff Photos

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