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    • Naka Pounding Yams

    • Naka Pounding Yams

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • The Kabye people of northern Togo are famous for their huge yams. Village women share their way of making fufu, which is eaten with a variety of different sauces. A favorite in the photographer’s village of Affem Kabye was ground peanut, sesame,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Catch an Eel Contest

    • Catch an Eel Contest

    • Agriculture

    • This picture was taken in Thailand in August,2010. The community helped the wat (temple) plant their rice fields. During the days activities, there was a contest for who could catch the most eels that were tossed into the muddy field in a minute --...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Life Skills

    • Life Skills

    • Life skills; Education

    • These girls take turns sewing during Village Apprentice Day at a secondary school in Malawi. As a first-year health Volunteer, Briana Scroggins arranged for her life skills class to pair with a local trade smith to teach students about basket...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Harvesting Nasi

    • Harvesting Nasi

    • Food and meals; Agriculture; Pre-service training (PST)

    • Two Volunteers take part in a training session at local rice paddies in Tlekung, Indonesia (Java Timur). They beat the rice plants to remove kernels, which are later dried to allow removal of actual rice.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Spear and Meat

    • Spear and Meat

    • Ceremonies; Food and meals; Host community friends

    • Volunteer Michael Goralczyk and a friend show pieces of a cow that were slaughtered for a Masai celebration in Tanzania. The meat of two cows were placed on a stick and inserted into the ground next to a large fire for all to enjoy.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Motivational Speaker

    • Motivational Speaker

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • Students at an Islamic boarding school in East Java, Indonesia, await a motivational speech by Volunteer Elle Chang. Usually unaware of the full details of an event until she arrived, Chang learned to embrace the ambiguity of such situations.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Long Distance Relationships

    • Long Distance Relationships

    • technology; host families

    • Volunteer Cate Crandall shares the magic of the Internet with her 97-year-old host great-grandmother during Easter brunch in Moldova. The Internet didn’t work in the house that rests within her remote village deep in a valley, so the twosome went...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Danny and Lydia

    • Danny and Lydia

    • Host families; housing; Volunteers

    • Volunteer Danny Lovell and his host mother enjoy a snack together in their small village in Armenia. In the beginning, Lydia’s family lived in the home as well, but they eventually moved to Germany. Though Lydia spoke in a heavy and difficult to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PEPFAR HIV/AIDS Calendar Contest

    • PEPFAR HIV/AIDS Calendar Contest

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • I took this photo of one of my students at Cape Coast School for the Deaf in Cape Coast, Ghana, working on her entry for the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS calendar contest. The theme of the contest was "My Friend with HIV is still my friend." I was her art...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV/AIDS PEPFAR Poster Contest

    • HIV/AIDS PEPFAR Poster Contest

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • Joseph Esoun, 12, a student at Cape Coast School for the Deaf in Cape Coast, Ghana, works on his entry for the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS calendar contest. The theme of the contest was "My Friend with HIV is still my friend." He was one of 13 winners in this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV Poster Contest

    • HIV Poster Contest

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is my student at Savelugu School for the Deaf in the Northern Region of Ghana, Mohammed Sayibu, who is participating in an HIV poster contest at her school. This photo was taken in June of 2012.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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

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