My Associate Peace Corps Director (APCD) suggested me to do this project with my students. It was a huge success and the students and faculty loved the project.
I was sitting on the inside "veranda" of a hut in Guinea in 1996. I was visiting the family of one of my English students. It was a very hot and sunny day in late January. We all gathered inside the mud and straw hut to avoid the heat. The children...
I used to pass children all the time on my way to work. This young boy always impressed me with his imagination and inventive mind. Kids don't have a lot of toys in rural Guinea, so they make them!
This is a picture of the village Iman (center), my fellow Volunteer, Allyson (left) and myself (right) in front of the health post we were building in rural Guinea. The Imam was my partner in the project and became a very close friend despite our...
My neighbor's children caring for each other while their mother worked in the market. This little girl carried her baby sister on her back all day long.