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    • Usha and myself

    • Usha and myself

    • host community friends; schools

    • This photo is of Usha, a young girl in the town who assisted me in the Nursery School, and myself. We spent many hours together as friends and teaching young children. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Fall 1966.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Banana-powered Bicycles

    • Banana-powered Bicycles

    • Host community; Transportation; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken August 25th, 2007 along the Pan-American Highway near my site in Paraugay. It shows my wife and I joking with Paraguayans about how we get around on banana-powered bicycles.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Feok Festival

    • Feok Festival

    • Celebrations; Host community friends

    • This was taken at the annual Feok Festival in Sandema, UER, Ghana - 2002. It is the harvest celebration and also the celebration of the Builsa people fighting off the slave raider Babatu. The Builsas are a proud people as you can see from the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Niñito

    • Niñito

    • children; host community friends

    • Photo taken for me and a small indigenous child (the tribe is called Coris I believe) in the rain forest outside of Santa Marta, Columbia. This photo was taken on a hike to the Ciudad Perdidos.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mohammed Lamine

    • Mohammed Lamine

    • children; host community friends

    • This is my neighbor, Mohammed Lamine. He's standing against the outside wall of his compound in Kindia, Guinea. When I first arrived, at the sight of me, he would turn and run away in the opposite direction screaming and crying. Most often, he...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Let's Color - Haiti

    • Let's Color - Haiti

    • Children; Host community friends

    • I lived with a family in Hinche, Haiti for a few months before moving out on my own. I kept in close touch with Fabienne, this little girl, and she came by often to play. This day we colored and read stories that my mom sent from the States.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Honoring My Village Grams, One Year Later

    • Honoring My Village Grams, One Year Later

    • elders; host community friends

    • The image was taken during my return visit to my village of Adeta, Togo one year after my service ended. I was so happy to be able to share a tribute to the woman who became my village grandma. I presented her with a photo of the exhibit that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The African Girl

    • The African Girl

    • Host community friends

    • This picture shows my 11-year old neighbor sitting on top of the school's nearby water tank, resting after manually drawing 80-liters of water for her family. The red colors of the sun ignite the horizon behind her and make her physical features...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Indian Woman in San Martin de Porres, barriada

    • Indian Woman in San Martin de Porres, barriada

    • host community friends

    • It was common practice for people to put a blanket on their back and go through garbage/litter for anything useable. The dress is typical of a Quechua woman recently arriving in the barriada outside Lima from high in the Andes. Photo taken in 1963...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Seeing Red

    • Seeing Red

    • host community friends

    • This young girl lives on my street in Maroua. She never smiles. One day I took out my camera and tried to get her to smile. The only time she smiled was after I took the photo and showed her the digital image of herself on the back of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swim and Spin

    • Swim and Spin

    • host community friends

    • Togolese launder their clothes as their children take relief from the dry heat in the river that cuts through the town of Pagala. My fellow PCV's and I took a break during our training sessions at IST and looked over the bridge to find an amazing...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Henna Hands

    • Henna Hands

    • host community friends; celebrations

    • This photo was taken in Ait Hamza, Morocco, on my birthday, September 23, 2010. As birthday's are not celebrated here, we had a cross-cultural exchange birthday party, which consisted of mint tea, cake, dancing and henna!
    • Volunteer Photos

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