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    • San Bartolome Jocotenango

    • San Bartolome Jocotenango

    • Rural sites; terrain

    • A tiny, indigenous town in the middle of the mountains in the department of Quiche, Guatemala, a beautiful place that has kept up the traditions of the K'iche people as well as the language. I took this photo my first month, and while sitting on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home Visit at the Church

    • Home Visit at the Church

    • Weather; Environment; Host community; Traditional dress

    • While accompanying my companion on a visit to one of the 30 communities of San Bartolome Jocotenango, we encountered these two women at the unfinished church before we reached their house. The umbrella, instead of for protection from the rain, was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mi Tocaya

    • Mi Tocaya

    • Host community friends; Maternal and child health

    • In Guatemala, a tocaya is someone who shares your name. This woman was one of the leaders of the group of women that we had formed and she took us to the homes when we did our visits. She is from a community called Las Cuevas (3 hours -on foot-...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Long and Winding Road

    • The Long and Winding Road

    • Rural sites; Terrain; Environment

    • While on the way to a community called Muluva, I took this photo. Not only was it during the dry season, but it was during one of the worst dry seasons that Guatemala had experienced in a long time. The path winds through the mountains with almost...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Family Lineage from Head to Toe

    • Family Lineage from Head to Toe

    • Elders; Host community friends; Youth

    • During my two years in San Bartolome, I received K'iche classes, the native language in the pueblo in order to be able to communicate with the native people better. This photo was taken at the house of my k'iche teacher, whose family was always...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Life at the Top of a Mountain

    • Life at the Top of a Mountain

    • Rural sites; Terrain; Environment

    • This photo was taken on a home visit. The mother of the house is all alone because the children have gone off to school and she has finished all the household chores. Her house, though simple, is well-kept and not to mention has an amazing view.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Rising Sun

    • The Rising Sun

    • Terrain; Rural sites

    • Everyday that I walked to work at the Health Center, I took a shortcut over this hill with the broken down adobe house on one side and the new adobe house on the other, complete with a family of 10. This morning I was waiting for my companion, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Meeting Between Mountains

    • A Meeting Between Mountains

    • Terrain; Rural sites; Host community friends; Environment

    • On the way back from a community visit, my companion meets up with other members of the community coming back from the main pueblo. I had walked on without realizing that she had stopped and when I turned around I found the difference between the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Cow Tender

    • The Cow Tender

    • Youth; Agriculture

    • We passed by this little girl while walking to a community to give a health talk to a group of women. She looked so serene and content to tend to her cows. In fact, the cow turned to look at me when I took the picture while the girl did not even...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Infinite Laundry

    • Infinite Laundry

    • Terrain; Rural sites

    • I snapped this photo while at a home visit of a house located way up in the mountains. It reflects the chores of daily life, which are bound within the home, but whose effects stretch out into infinity, which is represented by the rolling green...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working Cowboys

    • Working Cowboys

    • Youth; Work; Rural sites

    • While we were conducting a home visit, these two boys came tromping back from working out in the fields. They were instantly curious as to who the strangers in their house were. They looked so cute in their matching cowboy hats that I asked to take...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Looking Out My Front Door

    • Looking Out My Front Door

    • Weather; Rural sites

    • This was the view out the front door of my house in the pueblo. That particular day, a storm had just swept in as the neighbor began to burn his yard. The smoke rose up and danced with the wind as I went inside to grab my camera and try to capture...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • International Women's Day

    • International Women's Day

    • Sports; International Women's Day; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)

    • I took this picture on International Women's Day in 2007. Each year on this day, the women in my village in Mali play a soccer game. We played unmarried women versus married women.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Typical Afternoon in Sirakoro

    • A Typical Afternoon in Sirakoro

    • Children; Host community friends

    • Sirakoro, Mali, Summer 2007. Afternoons in Sirakoro, were often spent visiting with friends and neighbors talking and drinking tea. This is a group of my neighbors kids that came by my house every day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Chief

    • Village Chief

    • Host families

    • This is a photograph of myself, my host father (on the left), and the village chief on the right. The village chief was 86 years old, almost twice the life expectancy in Mali. I was the first Peace Corps volunteer in the village, and he was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ugandan Scouts

    • Ugandan Scouts

    • schools; children

    • As an education volunteer, I am placed at a Primary Teachers College in rural Uganda. Recently the college held a regional scouting competition where different troupes came to compete. There were children from age five through twenty-five. I came...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching the Games

    • Watching the Games

    • schools; children

    • This photo was taken in July, 2011 during an school track and field competition at the primary teachers college where I serve as an education volunteer. Despite my lack of technical knowledge on track and field events, I helped run practices...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Processional

    • Processional

    • schools; children

    • As an education volunteer in southwestern Uganda, I have the opportunity to work on various secondary projects with local primary schools. In one nearby school, I facilitated a drama club where children could have the opportunity to express...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Performance Preparations

    • Performance Preparations

    • schools; children

    • As an education volunteer in Southwestern Uganda, I have the opportunity to work on various secondary projects with local primary schools. In one nearby school, I facilitated a drama club where children could have opportunities to express...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Victory

    • Victory

    • schools; children; sports

    • I work as an education volunteer in Southwestern Uganda and recently had the opportunity to help the students at my school prepare for a regional track and field competition. This photo shows two of my students as the 10k race was finished. The...
    • Volunteer Photos

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