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    • Working Hard...

    • Working Hard...

    • Work; Host community friends; Forestry

    • I took this photo in 2001, while working with a community member, and good friend, Miguel. He works in the forestry and cattle industries in Eastern Honduras.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to the Banana Republic!

    • Welcome to the Banana Republic!

    • Markets; Agriculture

    • Early morning, the owner of this truck (along with 7 others lined up) sells his plantains in the market place of . The amount of platanos produced and the overloaded trucks are quite a site!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Honduras

    • Welcome to Honduras

    • Transportation

    • The traffic in Honduras can be quite an experience. This picture shows the incredibly overwhelming sense that one gets when in the center of town. October 2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Spuds

    • Washing Spuds

    • Markets; Children

    • Even very young children have jobs and responsibilities in Honduras. A weekly trip to the mercado to purchase fruits and vegetables was always something I looked forward to as a Peace Corps Volunteer. There was competition in displaying the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Children

    • Three young boys stand in the window of a small library in Catacamas, Honduras. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. April, 1969.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Terrain; Urban sites

    • View of Tegucigalpa, Honduras at dusk from the hillside barrio where a Peace Corps Volunteer photographer during his years in Honduras. February, 1970.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Street Scene with Politcal Graffitti

    • Street Scene with Politcal Graffitti

    • Urban sites

    • A street with Che and Fidel graffiti. Many in Latin America employed the use of the People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) and other Cuban slogans as a way of encouraging a sense of rebellion against their own leaders. Panama 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stove Building

    • Stove Building

    • Pre-service training (PST)

    • This picture was taken in Honduras on August 18, 2010, after the completion of building a cookstove in one day. As municipal development trainees, we were tasked with building new cookstoves for families, together with the local University in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stars and Stripes Forever in Honduras

    • Stars and Stripes Forever in Honduras

    • Children

    • This photo was taken around the 4th of July at the Instituto Hondureno de la Ninez y la Familia (IHNFA) in Honduras. IHNFA is a government organization that serves children living in extreme poverty, and children of working mothers (under age 7)....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Shoe Shine

    • Shoe Shine

    • Business development

    • Boys that shine shoes are everywhere in Latin America and an accepted part of the social landscape. Iqutos, Peru, the headwaters of the Amazon. 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Recess

    • Recess

    • Children; Schools; Teachers and students

    • In Nacaome Honduras 1994 teaching games to the kids so they could play with each other at recess.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Quinceanera

    • Quinceanera

    • Celebrations

    • I took this photo during a 15th birthday celebration (quinceanera) at my site. In Honduras, quinceanera celebrations mark the coming-of-age for girls. In poor communities, such as this one, the quinceanera may be the only birthday celebration a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Profile of María

    • Profile of María

    • Elders

    • This photograph was shot in Honduras during a nutrition and healthy cooking class for mothers in June of 2011. María is a Lenca women, one of the indigenous populations of Honduras famous for their brightly colored pañuelos (head scarves)....
    • Volunteer Photos

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