This photo was taken on November 20, 2010, halfway through the training of the 23rd group of Volunteers to serve in Burkina Faso. It shows a group of small enterprise development Volunteers learning to make liquid soap from components, a skill...
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.
This photo was taken in the Spring of 2007 on the Island of Santo Antao, in the Cape Verde Islands, West Africa. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Cape Verde, I participated in a hiking group formed by a group of Host Country Nationals. My Cape...
This photo was taken in my backyard with my two favorite neighbors- Ging and Sia Mai. Three Peace Corps staff members had visited me the week before and given out some balloons. It made these little girls' day.
This photo was taken December 1, 2011 in my village in Burkina Faso. We celebrated World AIDS day by giving a village-wide awareness campaign and condom demonstrations. Surprisingly, one of the volunteers for practicing with the female condom was...
A few of the kids who helped design and paint the mural at our primary school posed for a picture during the process. The photo was taken in January 2012 in the village of Bissighin in Burkina Faso.
I took this photo at my neighbors house in May 2010. It shows a group of kids in La Montana, Osicala, Morazan, El Salvador making an Organic Compost to use for a home garden. We are promoting recycling through organic materials as well as...
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out (June 2011). Amazingly, 11 volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!