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    • 'Ofa=Love

    • 'Ofa=Love

    • Elders

    • This photo was taken in December 2010 shortly after Tongan Group 76 swear-in. We were invited to 'Ofa's house for a Christmas dinner. She was our language and culture teacher in training. 'Ofa means love and she is so well named. She loved...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • T'schila Woman Cooking

    • 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
    • Glimpse of historical innocence

    • Glimpse of historical innocence

    • Elders; Youth; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken on May 9th, 2011 in celebration of Victory Day in Ukraine. The parade took place in the city and ended atop the hill of the eternal flame. This photo was taken as I was walking through a crowd with an elderly woman who had been...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old One

    • 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
    • Craft Time

    • 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
    • Basket Making

    • Basket Making

    • elders; artisans; host families

    • My first month of service, March 2011, I lived with a host family. My host dad was a basket maker. He started with a long piece of bamboo, whittled it down to the various lengths and widths needed, and proceeded to make baskets. His baskets were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandpa's Turn to Raise Baby

    • Grandpa's Turn to Raise Baby

    • Elders; Children

    • Taken during the Dragon Boat Festival on June 5. The red head band is put on the baby's head to protect the soft spot. Single children are raised by as many as six adults: two sets of grandparents who retire relatively young and the parents who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hope

    • Hope

    • Elders

    • Photo was taken in Jawand, Afghanistan during a Peace Corps/USAID Project called Operation Help. It was a War on Hunger project during the 1970's famine relief in Afghanistan.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pa Foday Koroma

    • Pa Foday Koroma

    • Elders

    • Village chief, Pa Foday, was also a weaver of local "country cloth." Here on his veranda, he weaves traditional cotton cloth on a tripod Mende loom. Pa Foday was a very amusing man. Although he spoke little in the way of English, from time to time,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Babas

    • Babas

    • Elders

    • I took this photo in a predominantly Muslim village in the heart of the Rhodope Mountains. The babas (grandmothers) in the picture were walking their horses to an unknown location in their usual attire; loud socks, blue overcoats, and headscarves. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Klay Chief and Wife

    • Klay Chief and Wife

    • Elders

    • This photo was taken when we arrived in Klay, Liberia for our in-country training in January 1987. We were welcomed by a small crowd from the village with drumming, dancing, and even a devil on stilts. The chief of the village and his wife...
    • Volunteer Photos

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