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- Old Enough to Know a Good Thing
- HIV-AIDS; Elders
- This photo was taken during a community WORTH meeting in Swaziland. This woman walks more then 40 minutes every week to meet with other women and gain knowledge both of HIV/AIDS prevention and micro-fiance. Well into her 70's and with five...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Computer Guru
- Elders
- This is the first time my Mama Gazda used a computer. She is talking to her granddaughter in Moscow via the internet in Moldova. She is 82 years old and such a wonderful person.
- Volunteer Photos
- Farmers, Grandfather and Grandson
- Elders; Host community friends
- Posing for a picture at home. Meru, Kenya, 1986
- Volunteer Photos
- T'schila Woman Cooking
- Elders; Pre-service training (PST); Cooking
- I took this photo during training in April of 2008 while visiting the T'schila tribe in El Poste, Ecuador. The photo shows an elderly woman of the tribe traditionally cooking food in a hut.
- Volunteer Photos
- Encounter On the Road
- Elders; Transportation
- Volunteer Stories
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Presentation, Fiscal Year 1996
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1996.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Presentation, Fiscal Year 1997
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1997.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1995
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justicifaction for the fiscal year of 1995.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Craft Time
- Artisans; elders
- I have been serving in Belize for the past two years. My primary assignment is working with a small mayan womens group that runs a craft center. Part of the way I decided to integrate better was to learn how to make the crafts just like them. This...
- Volunteer Photos
- Old One
- Elders
- This is the cleaning lady at the school where my host mother taught. It was taken in September 2004 in Urgench, Khorzem Region, Uzbekistan. I loved her face. The people of Uzbekistan were poor but they had so much pride and were so friendly.
- Volunteer Photos
- Old One
- elders
- I was visiting my host mom (a teacher of Russian) at her school. She and a couple of other tachers where cleaning their classrooms before the school year started. This lady, whom I called "old one" was there to help. She was the regular cleaning...
- Volunteer Photos
- Woodcutter in the Woods
- Elders
- While staying with two Slovak young men at a historic mill in the woods of the High Tatry of Northern Slovakia, I was invited to join them in walking to a cabin, the home of an old woodcutter. One of the young men had promised to take photos of his...
- Volunteer Photos
- Malagasy Grandfather Carrying Granddaughter on Shoulders
- Elders; Children
- Malagasy grandfather carrying his granddaughter on shoulder. Picture was taken on the East Coast of Madagascar in 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Honoring My Village Grams, One Year Later
- elders; host community friends
- The image was taken during my return visit to my village of Adeta, Togo one year after my service ended. I was so happy to be able to share a tribute to the woman who became my village grandma. I presented her with a photo of the exhibit that...
- Volunteer Photos
- Paramount Chief John Z. Kari
- Elders; Kennedy, John F.
- Paramount Chief, John Z. Kari, with the shell money that is the symbol of his chieftanship. He was a friend of President John F. Kennedy during WWII.
- Volunteer Photos
- Gotchoo and the Snuff Bottle
- Elders; Traditional dress; Artisans; Crafts
- This man is a woodcarver and his name is Gotchoo. The little carved snuff bottle in his hand is one of the most beautifully carved objects I have ever seen-entirely covered with intricate and symbolic carvings. It is used in a little greeting...
- Volunteer Photos
- Returning Home
- transportation; Elders
- For Slovaks that live in the country, wood is essential for heating and cooking. So, a day cutting wood was accomplished by these men, and we met them on their way home. Obviously, a horse drawn wagon uses the same roads as automobiles and trucks...
- Volunteer Photos
- Grandmothers' Participation in Town Celebration
- Elders; Traditional dress; Celebrations
- In April 2007 I traveled to Poltava Oblast in the center of Ukraine to visit a fellow Volunteer. I took this picture in Reshetylivka, her town, on the anniversary of the town's founding. These women are babusiyas (grandmothers) and they're...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tribal Chief
- Traditional dress; Elders; Ceremonies
- One of the region's tribal chiefs and his court.
- Volunteer Photos
- Ngwang
- Celebrations; Elders; Traditional dress
- The traditional rulers from Tatum/Nkum area appreciated greatly my efforts during my Peace Corps service and in 1999 gave a traditional title Ngwang with a beautiful dress, a cap, a handmade necklace and a country bag. To them I was a peacemaker...
- Volunteer Photos