This Volunteer is assigned to Sibila, Mali. The photo shows her talking with Mahowa Traore and her children, with whom she shares the family compound and her meals, as they prepare a snack and eat peanuts.
This Volunteer is assigned to Sibila, Mali. The photo shows her talking with Mahowa Traore and her children, with whom she shares the family compound and her meals, as they prepare a snack and eat peanuts
Volunteer is assigned to Sibila, Mali. In this photo she talks with Mahowa Traore and her children, with whom she shares the family compound and her meals, as they prepare a snack and eat peanuts.
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...
I took this photo during the first few weeks of meeting my host family, July 8 ,2010, in Ecuador. The photo shows the joy we have in being together and learning through play. My headlamp on her forehead may be a symbol of the progress young...
Dominica - three Volunteers from Grenada traveled to Dominica to stay with fellow Volunteerss. We were warmly welcomed by a homestay dad in near Trafalgar, Dominica.
In this photo, I was cutting grapes with my host mother's father walking in the background. This was a late September day, and the grapes were ripe. A full morning was spent cutting them down, and they were soon processed into wine and rakia,...
This photo was taken in April of 2010 in the Tsa'chila village of El Poste, Ecuador. Here, I am dressed in traditional Tsa'chila attire with my host family in front of a garden we planted together. The garden sits between two new tourist huts we...
Not long after arriving in Cuisnhuat I met a family with whom I had an immediate connection. They basically adopted me for the remainder of my service, inviting me for meals, introducing me to people, and helping me to gain "confianza" at my site....