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    • Traditional Dominican Farmer

    • Traditional Dominican Farmer

    • host community friends; animals

    • This photograph was taken in the mountains of the Dminican Republic where my husband and I served two years working on an organic pesticide project for coffee growers. In this photograph is our host brother, Iselso Marmol, who was a traditonal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coffee Beans

    • Coffee Beans

    • agriculture

    • This photograph is of coffee beans picked during the harvest in the mountains of the Dominican Republic where my husband and I worked with traditional coffee growers on an organic pesticide project. This photograph was taken in 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dominican Morning

    • Dominican Morning

    • housing; host community friends

    • This photograph was taken during technical training in the small community of La Cumbre, Dominican Republic in 2008. A group of volunteers woke up early to embark on a hike with a host brother through the Dominican forest. This young boy was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children on a Firetruck

    • Children on a Firetruck

    • Children; Host community

    • This photo was taken during the PC DR 07-02 Health Volunteer Community Based Training near Bani, in the Dominican Republic. One of the health volunteers was staying in a home where the front room was let out to the volunteer fire department. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trainees on a gua gua

    • Trainees on a gua gua

    • Transportation; Host community; Volunteers

    • This is a photo of a group of trainees as we head to the training center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in Feb of 2001. This is typical public transportation in the city, a crowded "gua gua" where there's always room for one more!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grinding coffee

    • Grinding coffee

    • Food and meals; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Volunteers

    • I took this picture of Volunteer Andrea Yajko learning how to grind coffee from her neighbor. Taken in 2001 in Villa Riva, Dominican Republic
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home remedies

    • Home remedies

    • Markets; health

    • This is a photo of some home remedies sold in the market in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, Oct. 2002. Titles of the potions include, "Come With Me Water," Lucky Water," "I will be with you because I will be with you Water," "Conqueror Water,"...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Map mural

    • Map mural

    • Art; Teachers and students; Youth development

    • A group of Volunteers painting a map mural. Cabrera, Dominican Republic, 2001
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Special education summer camp

    • Special education summer camp

    • Maternal and child health; Health; Host community; Volunteers

    • This is a photo of me doing some stretching exercises with a child with cerebral palsy during a summer camp for children with disabilities that me and my host mother held in my site. This was work that was done through the parent support group that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Computer rehab project

    • Computer rehab project

    • training; children; Volunteers

    • This is a photo of Volunteer Matt Kennedy with youth from his community showing them how to repair computers. I was working for an NGO, World Links, and coordinated this project with Peace Corps and the Ministry of Education to allow a group of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host mother

    • Host mother

    • Host families

    • This is a picture of me and my host mother. We've remained close well after my service. I even invited her to live with me for several months in the US after my first child was born. She is like a second mother to me. Castillo, Dominican...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo on December 1, 2011 at the World AIDS Day event in my community in Dominican Republic. Our youth group Escojo Mi Vida ("I Choose My Life") prepared and presented informational talks and dramas about HIV/AIDS. The photo shows some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Find the Ball!

    • Find the Ball!

    • HIV/AIDS; Games

    • This is a photo of Dominican youth playing 'Find the Ball,' a game from the HIV prevention initiative Deportes para la Vida. Youth pass a ball from one another behind their backs in order to see if they can guess where it stops. The ball...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Do you know Pepe?

    • Do you know Pepe?

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • This is a photo taken of club Superman in Dominican Republic. The group is for young boys and is facilitated by a local teenager, Victor. He is a wonderful role model and facilitates HIV prevention games that are taught in the Deportes para la...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Rights of Children

    • The Rights of Children

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo of a mural done on the front of an elementary school in Dominican Republic by the group Brilliant Girls. The mural depicts children's rights and features some of the painters and their proud work! One of the rights says freedom...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Juggling Life!

    • Juggling Life!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo taken in Dominican Republic. Kristy, a youth Yolunteer in the DR, is facilitating a HIV prevention game called juggling life with her Sports for Life group. The youth have to try to juggle balls that represent different...
    • Volunteer Photos

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