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    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 3

    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 3

    • Cooking

    • As part of my various tasks as a SEAD Volunteer, I helped develop micro-credit businesses. I traveled to the homes of rug maker, cake bakers, and bread makers. All the people I met I tried to help, with advise and education in western ways of...
    • Staff Photos
    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 2

    • Baking Lavash Bread in a Pit 2

    • Cooking

    • While working as a SEAD Volunteer, I helped Seda make and market her product unlevan lavash bread. I would travel to her mountian village, Ayagabts, Armenia, to work with her. I managed a micro-credit loan program as well during my time at my site...
    • Staff Photos
    • Baking Lavash Bread in Pit

    • Baking Lavash Bread in Pit

    • Cooking

    • As a small business consultant (SEAD) I was advising this village women Seda, on how to sell her product, lavash bread. I witnessed her bake 100 lavash at a time in a wood fired ceramic pit in the mountain village of Aygabats, Armenia. It was...
    • Staff Photos
    • Another Slow Day in Antigua

    • Another Slow Day in Antigua

    • Architecture

    • This photo was taken in the central square of Antigua, Guatemala in 2009. It was one of many visits there from where I was living in El Salvador, and I just loved the background colors and the expression on the girl's face. I pulled this off my...
    • Staff Photos
    • We can learn it

    • We can learn it

    • Dance; Training; Training groups

    • I took this photo of trainees from group BG26 learning how to play traditional Bulgarian folk dance during their Initial Orientation in Panichishte, Bulgaria on May 14th, 2010
    • Staff Photos
    • Happy and Smile

    • Happy and Smile

    • Children

    • I took this photo of Education sector Volunteers Shantay (left) and Jeng-Tyng (right) with a Roma child during PST Training event entitled Roma Culture Day in Kyustendil, Bulgaria on May 10th, 2008.
    • Staff Photos
    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Fashionable Turkmen students

    • Education; Girls' education

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Andy (TEFL Turkmenistan) seems to have attracted a bevy of beauties to his after-school English Club. Young Turkmen women balance tradition, with long hair and hand-embroidered, long dresses, yet have a sense of fashion that...
    • Staff Photos
    • Staff Retreat Pantomime Turkmenistan

    • Staff Retreat Pantomime Turkmenistan

    • Affiliate groups; Training

    • Peace Corps is famous for hands-on, experiential learning, so staff have to get down and dirty as well as Volunteers. In February 2011 Turkmenistan staff at an IPBS Retreat formed small groups to act out "machines." Here one group, with Health...
    • Staff Photos
    • Fifth Form Fun

    • Fifth Form Fun

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Work

    • This 1995 photo shows a lighter moment in my fifth form classroom at School #97 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. We were learning how to make rabbit ears on ourselves and our neighbors while posing for photos.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tea and Stories

    • Tea and Stories

    • Elders; Host community friends

    • This is a photo of me with my neighbor, Maria Yegorovna. I would visit her often to drink tea and hear her stories about life as a teenager working in the coal mines of Karaganda during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). She didn't have...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Valle Shqiptare

    • Valle Shqiptare

    • Traditional dress; Dance; Youth

    • The National Folk Festival in Albania is held every 4-5 years in the southern city of Gjirokaster, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hosted in the city's Ottoman era castle, Albanian performers from every district of the country as well as from abroad...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bunica Welcomes Me to Romania

    • The Bunica Welcomes Me to Romania

    • Host community friends; Ceremonies

    • Just after visiting my first commemoration of the dead ceremony at the local Romanian Orthodox biserica, the bunica, who literally lives, works, eats and sleeps in her bucataria, gave me a plate of homemade goodness, a lovely bunch of garden...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Clean Hands

    • Clean Hands

    • Water and sanitation; Youth; Children; Schools

    • On Sept. 24, 2009, two fifth graders at a 9-year school in Fushe Arres show off their clean hands after an interactive classroom activity on proper handwashing techniques. Lessons were coupled with information on the H1N1 virus to encourage a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing for Winter

    • Preparing for Winter

    • Environment; Life skills

    • In early June 2009, a worker uses a chainsaw to cut logs to length for wood stoves. In certain regions of the country, Albanian families order several cubic meters of wood in the summer to be shortened, split, and dry so they will have enough wood...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Flossing

    • Flossing

    • Youth; Children

    • On Feb. 15, 2010, Volunteer Patricia Hong and her counterpart Shpresa pose with a class of second graders at the Puka "Migjeni" 9-year school to show off their demonstration-sized floss. Students learned about dental hygiene, tooth anatomy, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Additions

    • New Additions

    • Animals; Wildlife

    • A family of sheep look out over the newest layer of snow to coat the little northern town of Puka, Albania in March 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Holiday Party

    • Holiday Party

    • Music; Celebrations; Elders

    • I arrived at site in mid December and was invited to an office Christmas Lunch. I accepted the invitation but the "lunch" was really a dinner and a huge party at a local restaurant. The night included dancing and singing by all. As I know now as...
    • Volunteer Photos

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