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    • 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
    • Life on the Demerara

    • Life on the Demerara

    • Children; Animals

    • This photo was taken up the Demerara River in Guyana, South America. My counterpart, the clinic staff and myself would make twice monthly trips to service the rivering communities. This is one of the houses/docks we stopped at and captured this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Getting the Word Out

    • Getting the Word Out

    • Teachers and students; HIV/AIDS

    • This was taken in Linden, Guyana, South America. It was part of a PEPFAR grant I was able to garnish alongside two other Volunteers. We did a puppet show campaign targeting primary and secondary schools with the message about HIV/AIDS...with...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Host Volunteer Visit

    • Host Volunteer Visit

    • Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken during my host Volunteer visit during pre-service training. I traveled into the interior to visit another Peace Corps Volunteer in a remote Amerindian village. This picture was taken after we completed teaching a session on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing for a Wedding

    • Preparing for a Wedding

    • Cooking; Weddings; Host families

    • My host sister got married, and the festivities included 5 days worth of celebrating and 10 days worth of preparation. In this picture we are making the dessert Mathai.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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