September 2010. My friend PCV Katrina leads a session at a Camp she helped organize in her village Nadjoundi. Thirty girls from her village attended the three-day camp just before the beginning of the school year, to promote the importance of...
March 2011. My friend PCV Christy sits with the children at Club Espoir in Dapaong, northern Togo. At the time we were listening to the opening comments from one of the organizers. Club Espoir (Club Hope) is organized by PCVs and Dapaong's...
July 21 2008. This photo was taken just after I finished a health talk at the "casa materna" in the town of Los Chiles, Rio San Juan. A casa materna or "community-based birthing home" is a house maintained by the Ministry of Health or another...
June 2008. This photo was taken at our Project Design and Management workshop at Selva Negra, near the city of Matagalpa. Three Nicaraguan colleagues and I are perfecting "el baile de pollo", or the chicken dance, that we had been practicing...
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress
February 2011. I got my hair braided in Cinkasse in northern Togo. I had a great time talking and laughing with these two ladies, two wives of the same husband, while they did their work. Braids and wigs are the style there, as women often have...
January 16, 2011, on a beach in Rabat, Morocco during the PC Niger evacuation conference. A woman wears traditional clothing for a walk along the beach as the waves crash into the jetty by the lighthouse.
November 2010. This photo was taken at the High School in Cinkasse, northern Togo. Our team is warming up for the big match. Teachers versus Students. I had been working with an environment group of high school students, and they had been...
This photo is located in at the main mosque in a town in Indonesia. The Volunteer, Paige, was required to have her head wrapped to show respect to the muslim community who has entered prayer. The mosque was completely full so people filled the...
Taken in 1990. Here I am planting a garden in my backyard with a village girl, Lois (who is a grown woman now). With the dry desert climate of the island of Antigua, West Indies, this turned out to be a challenging project and ultimately did not...
This photo was taken in 2004 on the island nation of the Commonwealth of Dominica during a parade in downtown Roseau. A DPPA employee was attempting to remove the stigma of condoms and getting people more accustomed to handling them. Shown in the...
I took this picture during World Aids Day in Burkina Faso, WEST AFRICA with the 10th grade students at Bafuji Lycée on December 5th 2011. This picture showed the participation of students during World Aids Day.
I took this picture during World Aids Day in Burkina Faso, WEST AFRICA with the 10th grade students at Bafuji Lycée on December 5th 2011. This picture showed the participation of students during World Aids Day.
I took this picture during World Aids Day in Gaoua, Burkina Faso, (West Africa) with the 10th grade students on December 5, 2011. This picture showed the participation of students during World Aids Day.
Sina, Dan, Faiva, Donna, Vave and Olepa waiting outside the government building as Dan & Donna headed out to assignment after training in Nukulaelae, Tuvalu. October 1982
Dan & Donna sitting with the host family mother and father (Sina & Faiva) at the party the night we were sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers for Tuvalu. The white around the necks is baby powder; it is a custom in Tuvalu to show appreciation during...
Luta and Donna Ryherd in a boat crossing the lagoon of the atoll of Nui, Tuvalu. Luta stayed close to Donna, because she had a life presrever and Luta did not know how to swim. July 1983