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    • Volunteer Inspects Dunes

    • Volunteer Inspects Dunes

    • Terrain; Host community

    • Third year Volunteer works with the Malian department of Water and Forests to establish village nurseries, create mudstove formations and encourage dune stabilization projects in the Sahelian region. In this photo he is shown with his Malian...
    • Agency Photos
    • Installing Tractor Treads

    • Installing Tractor Treads

    • Training; Host community

    • A Volunteer teaches his Kenyan students how to repair heavy construction machinery by doing it himself. Here, he shows his students how to install tractor treads.
    • Agency Photos
    • A Car Ride

    • A Car Ride

    • Transportation; Host community friends

    • Volunteer teaches English as a foreign language to students at the high school level in Morocco. In the photo shown, she takes a car ride with friends of her maid.
    • Agency Photos
    • Conversing at an Inter-Cultural Program

    • Conversing at an Inter-Cultural Program

    • Volunteers; Host Community

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer who teaches industrial arts at Dacca University, the mother of the volunteer’s in-country training host family, the Vice Chancellor of Dacca University, a Peace Corps Volunteer who works as a carpenter in the Mirpur...
    • Agency Photos
    • Lemonade at the Titanic Club

    • Lemonade at the Titanic Club

    • Agriculture; Host community friends

    • Taking a break on a hot day in Rokupr, Sierra Leone, 1977. I had made my rounds to local farmers and stopped to pick up my mail and visit a friend over lemonade at the Titanic club. How hot was it? No thermometers, we didn't want to know!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building a New Home

    • Building a New Home

    • Host community; Housing

    • This is a photo of Alphonse, the business adminstrator of the artisans' cooperative, with whom I worked very closely during my time in Mora. He save enough money to build a new house, with the help of family and friends in the village of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • Health Post Almost Done!

    • Health Post Almost Done!

    • Health; Architecture; Host community friends

    • This is a picture of the village Iman (center), my fellow Volunteer, Allyson (left) and myself (right) in front of the health post we were building in rural Guinea. The Imam was my partner in the project and became a very close friend despite our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Kyrgyz Republic and Habitat for Humanity Team Up

    • Peace Corps Kyrgyz Republic and Habitat for Humanity Team Up

    • Volunteerism; Small Project Assistance (SPA); Architecture; Host community friends

    • I took this photo on-site in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on August 12th, 2006 during a joint project with the local Habitat for Humanity. The small project teamed Peace Corps Volunteers with local friends to encourage volunteerism within their own...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Last Day - Smile and Tears

    • Last Day - Smile and Tears

    • Host community friends

    • It was 2003 and the end of my service in Mlangeni, Malawi. I had worked hard, especially with the youth raising awareness regarding HIV/AIDS and facilitating a rural volunteer counseling and testing program. All of these faces were a part of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Reforestation Campaign

    • Community Reforestation Campaign

    • Environment; Forestry; Work; Host community friends

    • I had this photo taken of me and my friend, Jonnys, during a community reforestation campaign in Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua in August, 1997. We are shown planting a Mexican cedar tree. I had established a tree nursery and organized a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Youth development; Business development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Another Volunteer is assigned to the government farm cooperative of Machakos as administrative advisor.
    • Agency Photos
    • Team Building

    • Team Building

    • Celebrations; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 9, 2011 in Tryavna, Bulgaria, with a group of four volunteers who were taking part in Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary activities. The photo depicts a team building activity we are preparing to perform, and I am...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; games

    • This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "Hello!"

    • "Hello!"

    • Children; Host community friends

    • I took this photo during a morning walk one day in my village in January, 2011 in Cambodia. Though I frequent the same roads daily on my walks/runs I am still bombarded with children yelling "Hello!" at me. This is my favorite group of children who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tangalala

    • Tangalala

    • children; host community friends

    • This little girl was in my training village. She was very very shy but loved to look at the pictures on my digital camera. If I brought my camera out she would peek out of her room. I took this in Navutulevu Village in November 2006.
    • Volunteer Photos

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