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    • Independence to All Youth

    • Independence to All Youth

    • Celebrations

    • Photo was taken at Vergenoegen Secondary School, in Region 3 of Guyana. This student, Christopher, was throwing a ball to another student. The school was having a student appreciation day in conjunction with the week long celebration of Guyana's...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Phagwah

    • Phagwah

    • Celebrations

    • This photo was taken during a Phagwah celebration in the spring of 2007. This holiday is mainly celebrated by the Hindu Indo-Guyanese population in Guyana to celebrate the trumiph of good over evil. On this day the village people of Canal #1,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Phagwah Day

    • Phagwah Day

    • celebrations

    • This photo was taken in Georgetown, Guyana during the Hindu Celebrate of Phagwah in 2010. The celebration involves throwing colored powder on everyone who is out in the city for the day and, as shocked as I was to be thrown into such a situation,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Hilltops Kids

    • My Hilltops Kids

    • Children

    • This photo was taken of me with the children/students in my village after playing a little bit of guitar for them in Hilltop, Amelia's Ward, Linden, Guyana 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Joy

    • Joy

    • Children

    • This photo of two local children was taken while walking down the road from my home in Amelia's Ward, Linden, Region 10, Guyana in 2006.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wakapoa

    • Wakapoa

    • Children

    • I took this photo while visiting another Volunteer in her remote Amerindian village, Wakapoa, in Region 2, Guyana. In this photo a young boy is seen walking to his home surrounded by palm trees; a hidden view to another way of life.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hanging in There

    • Hanging in There

    • children

    • This picture was taken in the Rastafarian community of Linden, Guyana. In this photo a baby is found relaxing in a hammock as many in the local community do.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • READ!

    • READ!

    • Children; Teachers and students

    • As a Peace Corps Response Volunteer, I'm currently living and working with an indigenous group of Amerindians in a remote village of Guyana. One day my younger students and I were reading books and decided we wanted a picture of ourselves, just...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing

    • Dancing

    • Dance; Teachers and students; Games

    • At a primary school in Guyana, I would often tell the students in my phonics class that "lots of times we read and sometimes we dance." This was a day when we chose to dance in front of the school during an assembly in 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Morning Prayer

    • Morning Prayer

    • schools; children; religion

    • I took this photo at the beginning of a school day in 2011 in Karawab, Guyana. The students say their prayers and pledge as a group before greeting the teachers and listening to the announcements. The Head Teacher watches the children carefully...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thumbs Up For Voting!

    • Thumbs Up For Voting!

    • Teachers and students

    • I took this photo in January 2011 at a primary school in Guyana. Our school had just implemented a student government program. This specific day was our election day complete with campaigning, a polling booth and voting. For each student who passed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Finding Guyana

    • Finding Guyana

    • teachers and students; education

    • A pupil took this photo of another student and I looking through the world atlas. I prompted her on how to look things up in the index. She took to the lesson well and found Guyana for me. This photo was taken at the Primary School Library in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Speaking Leaves

    • Speaking Leaves

    • youth

    • I took this photo on the third day (August 16th, 2011) of a two week youth camp in Guyana. The three children in the photo represent three of the six major races in Guyana: the Africans, the East Indians, and the indigenous Amerindians. The photo's...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What's Your Flavour?

    • What's Your Flavour?

    • Food and meals

    • Volunteers Tim, Emily, Shannon and I are sampling some of the fare at the House of Flavour rasta shop in Georgetown, Guyana. Don't always judge your meal by the looks...this was GREAT, and the fact that it cost less than $2.00 was even better! ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • It's not 4th of July, It's Diwali

    • It's not 4th of July, It's Diwali

    • Celebrations

    • Diwali is the festival of lights, and each year Guyanese decorate their houses with hundreds of small votive like candles and sparklers. This picture is of myself and my neighbor during Diwali celebrations in 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Halloween in Guyana

    • Halloween in Guyana

    • Celebrations

    • A fellow Volunteer and myself decided to have a Halloween party for the neighborhood kids in Guyana. We made the costumes, which included a pirate (pictured), a mouse, a cat, a bumblebee, a ladybug and a basketball player.
    • Volunteer Photos

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