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    • Tamai

    • Tamai

    • Elders; Food and meals

    • This is Tamai, one of the older ladies in my village. Saramaccan women work very hard harvesting, cutting, and beating rice, the primary food in a Saramaccan diet. Even women Tamai's age can put an able-bodied Peace Corps volunteer in his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Collecting Water

    • Collecting Water

    • Water and sanitation

    • Amavi is collecting water for her family for drinking, cooking, cleaning and bathing. At the time the only place to find water near her house was to dig a hole and hope for the best. Unfortunately some cattle found her family's water hole but she...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rice Harvest

    • Rice Harvest

    • Agriculture

    • I took this photo in January of 2009 in Fiadanana, Madagascar. The woman all the way to the right in this picture owned many of the rice fields in this area and let me use this plot to experiment with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Supermen

    • Supermen

    • Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 2012. My friend came to visit me and we were walking through my barrio with my host nieces. This is a beautiful view of what I get to see everyday.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Housing; Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She is sparsely furnished, has a number of Kenyan artifacts. She does her shopping, as shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking...
    • Agency Photos
    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She does her shopping, shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking on a wood burning stove.
    • Agency Photos
    • Breakfast in Kilibwoni

    • Breakfast in Kilibwoni

    • Housing; Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer has breakfast with other Volunteers in their house in Kilibwoni. One Volunteer teaches history and geograpghy in the harambee secondary school in Kilibwoni. The other teaches english in the same school. The Volunteer to the right works...
    • Agency Photos
    • Eating With Another PCV

    • Eating With Another PCV

    • Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer is an ag extension agent on settlements in the Kakamega District of Kenya. He works mostly in dairy and maize--also visits farmers and advises them on ways to improve their methods of raising maize, cattle feeding, and paddocking etc....
    • Agency Photos
    • Koporo-Pen Health/Sanitation Committee

    • Koporo-Pen Health/Sanitation Committee

    • Host community; Health

    • This is a photo of Koporo-pen's Peace Corp formed health committee which consisted of my village work counterpart and two members of each section of the village. We met weekly to discuss issues with village sanitation and health and brainstormed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Whose the Boss?

    • Whose the Boss?

    • Host community friends; Host families

    • Visiting a Volunteer's host family and neighbors during a photo shoot for Peace Corps. Interestingly, though I was the art director for this photo shoot, the local women all assumed I was a girlfriend of the photographer and not his manager. The...
    • Staff Photos
    • Friday Brunch with Some Friends

    • Friday Brunch with Some Friends

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Food and meals

    • This was taken at a 'bagh' in north Tehran. I am the one in front with the beard. We are using a samovar, a water boiler used frequently in the Middle East and Russia, especially for tea.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • With Great Friends

    • With Great Friends

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • Here, we are with the family who lived next door to Kelly. They gave us those beautiful clothes before we left our service.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Walking in the Corn

    • Walking in the Corn

    • Host community friends; Host families

    • Taken in October 2010 in Chivarreto, Totonicapan, Guatemala. My in-laws and brother in-law came to visit our village and see what life for the majority is like here in Guatemala. Our neighbor kids were so welcoming and loved spending time with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing laughter

    • Sharing laughter

    • Host community friends; Host families; Children

    • This a picture of a Paraguayan woman with her nieces and nephew caught in the moment of having a good time. The picture was taking on December 25, 2010 in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friends

    • Friends

    • host community friends

    • Friends. They translate into any language and any culture. And no matter where you are in the world, you have them. They may not be the same friends you had when you were 6 or 16, but they are there for you. Always. This photograph was taken...
    • Volunteer Photos

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