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    • 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
    • 50th Anniversary Dinner

    • 50th Anniversary Dinner

    • Celebrations; Anniversaries; Women's movement

    • PCV Chris talks with women from my women's group during our 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps celebration dinner. The women's group gathered to hear experiences from Volunteers both in China and in other countries served. Afterwards, they ate a...
    • Volunteer 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
    • Our Lady of Antigua

    • Our Lady of Antigua

    • Religion

    • One last photo from our Antigua, Guatemala trip. This was in a little alcove outside our inn, and I was drawn to the composition of the image.
    • Staff Photos
    • It's Just Too Hot

    • It's Just Too Hot
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    • This was taken in Antigua, Guatemala. It was probably 95 degrees that day, which is pretty hot for Antigua, and these boys were taking advantage of the large fountain by one of the monasteries. I just loved the colors.
    • Staff Photos
    • A Game for One

    • A Game for One

    • Children

    • This little girl had wandered away from her mother and was playing one-person fetch with her shoe. It was so adorable and the colors were so beautiful, I had to take her picture.
    • Staff Photos
    • We can learn it

    • We can learn it

    • Dance; Training; Training groups

    • I took this photo of trainees from group BG26 learning how to play traditional Bulgarian folk dance during their Initial Orientation in Panichishte, Bulgaria on May 14th, 2010
    • Staff Photos
    • Happy and Smile

    • Happy and Smile

    • Children

    • I took this photo of Education sector Volunteers Shantay (left) and Jeng-Tyng (right) with a Roma child during PST Training event entitled Roma Culture Day in Kyustendil, Bulgaria on May 10th, 2008.
    • Staff Photos
    • Ilana and the three caps

    • Ilana and the three caps

    • Education; Children

    • TEFL Volunteer Ilana in Balkan Region of Turkmenistan gets students to act out English actions with pantomime, Oct 2011. Students are wearing "tahya" hat" as part of their school uniform, with patterns unique to each gender and region.
    • Staff Photos
    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Education; Girls' education

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Andy (TEFL Turkmenistan) seems to have attracted a bevy of beauties to his after-school English Club. Young Turkmen women balance tradition, with long hair and hand-embroidered, long dresses, yet have a sense of fashion that...
    • Staff Photos

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