In the central Albanian mountain town of Gjinar, you will find numerous donkeys tied up to random trees or rocks as their owners stock up on fruits and vegetables at the weekly market. Picture taken in July of 2009.
In a small village outside of Essaouira, Morocco in 2010 a small boy greats us at the local hanout (shop). He offers us a ride on his donkey in exchange for candy.
This photo was taken in Ait Hamza, Morocco, on my birthday September 23, 2010. As birthday's are not celebrated here, we thought it would be fun to have a cross-cultural exchange and so we played pin the tail on the real donkey with local children.
My good friend Slavi took me and some other volunteers for a walk to his cottage in the countryside, and on the way we encountered his mother's donkey. Being a normal mode of transportation in and around my town, Slavi proceeded to show us how to...
This past weekend (September 4th, 2011) in a small village in central Bulgaria 21 PCV's came together to participate in the village's 23rd Donkey Race. Activities included a donkey cart race, donkey cart tug-of-war and donkey soccer. Three...
This photo was taken on August 30th, 2010 in Kryve Ozero, Mykolayivska Oblast in Ukraine, just a few days after my 26th birthday. It was my last summer at site and I decided to throw an American style birthday party. In Ukraine, birthdays are...
Every year for the village holiday in Gurkovo, Bulgaria there is a Donkey Race, this year it took place September 4th, 2011. 21 volunteers from around Bulgaria came to the village of about 3000, located in Central Bulgaria, to watch three of our...
This picture was taken on January 18, 2008 along the road that connects the villages of Lotima and Mrabani near Taveta, Kenya. The boys were taking maize stalks to Lotima to sell as livestock feed. At the time this picture was taken, most of...