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    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Transportation; Housing

    • Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Crossover Training in the Field

    • Crossover Training in the Field

    • Host community friends; Children; Games

    • Natase and Shania are my friends, my distraction, my adopted daughters, my salvation. Jump ropes sent from friends back home are used as a cultural exchange. I teach them the cross-over technique and they fill me in on neighborhood gossip. Photo...
    • 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
    • Berbice Sewing Bee

    • Berbice Sewing Bee

    • Crafts; Income generation; Literacy

    • One of my Peace Corps projects included a Capacity Building and Literacy Program. Classes included crafts, sewing, literacy, and computers. This photo shows three students attending their first of many sewing classes. Photo taken in March, 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Back Roads of Canje, Guyana

    • Back Roads of Canje, Guyana

    • Transportation

    • New Amsterdam, Guyana is below sea level. The only place with any elevation is the Canje Bridge between New Amsterdam and Canje. Part of my exercise routine includes scaling the bridge a few times a week. Most people travel by foot, bicycle,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Cleaning Rice

    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Cleaning Rice

    • Food and meals; Cooking; Celebrations

    • For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken with my host family shortly before training ended in September of 1984. They took such good care of me. At first they attempted to serve me meals that they thought were Americanized. When they realized how much I liked...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey

    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey

    • Cooking; Food and meals; Celebrations

    • For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti in 1984, all of the volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Rice and Pigeon Peas

    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Rice and Pigeon Peas

    • Celebrations; Food and meals; Cooking

    • For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery Volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing In with Loret Miller Ruppe

    • Swearing In with Loret Miller Ruppe

    • Swearing-in ceremonies; Volunteers

    • This photo was taken during the swearing-in ceremony of the third and largest group of Volunteers to begin service in Haiti in 1984. Loret Miller Ruppe, the then-Director of the Peace Corps, came to Haiti to officiate. This photo shows eight of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coloring on the Porch

    • Coloring on the Porch

    • Children; Youth; Education; Art; Education

    • This picture reflects my happiest and most memorable experience of my Peace Corps service in East Timor. On an almost nightly basis, the kids from my neighborhood in Manatuto would come over to my porch and we would color, dance, and joke around. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Round One

    • Round One

    • Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack

    • Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's May 4, 1966 speech entitled 'Round One' given at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Vaughn discusses his impressions of Peace Corps after three years as the agency's Director, and...
    • Speeches, Essays and Letters

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