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- Hai la masa!
- Food and meals; Host families
- This is a photo of the lunch my host mother prepared for me in Moldova. I was the only one eating. Moldovans love to share food and homemade wine and they expect you to eat EVERYTHING. The food is delicious and my waistline is expanding. Many great...
- Volunteer Photos
- Carpet Weaver's Hands
- Artisans; Host families
- This is the hands of my host family's grandmother who is a carpet weaver; her hands are stained and tattooed with patterns from the Middle Atlas of Morocco. Photo taken November 4, 2005.
- Volunteer Photos
- Host Niece
- Host families
- This is one of my favorite photos of my host niece, and a reminder of my early days at site. I took this photo during my first three months of service in August 2011. During that time I was still adjusting to living with my host family and likewise...
- Volunteer Photos
- My Bonica in Moldova
- Host families
- My host family Bonica is talking to her granddaughter in Moscow. She is 82 years old and never used a computer before. This is some of the small things volunteers bring during their service. She was so excited.
- Volunteer Photos
- Cooking Traditional Grenadian Food
- Host families; Cooking
- This photo was taken on Easter Sunday. This is my host mother and I preparing a traditional Grenadian feast of mackerel fish, tomatoes and onions. Gathering in the kitchen to help prepare meals is a tradition in Grenadian culture and its not...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification, Fiscal Year 2005
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 2005.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- It is Good to be Found
- Host families
- Volunteer Stories
- Celebrating Host Country Mothers & Families on Mother's Day
- Host families; Celebrations
- This photo was taken on my Host Mother's 47th Birthday in Macedonia. Present in the picture are members of my nucleus host family. Birthdays are not hugely celebrated or not as big of a deal --for adults, as Name days (Imenden) are in Macedonia....
- Volunteer Photos
- Ay Baba
- Host families; Host community friends; Celebrations
- Like many Peace Corps Volunteers before and after me, Seyni was my Baba (father). Being posted in Dosso, Niger where Seyni was the Peace Corps Program Assistant, I became very close to him and his family. It was a rare day that I did not hear the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Group 36 - Farewell to Host Families
- Pre-service Training (PST)
- This photo was taken in Ukraine. All the host families came to say goodbye to us. Training was over and we were taking the bus to Swearing in. It was a day full of tears of sadness but also tears of joy.
- Volunteer Photos
- My Ukrainian Host Mom
- Host families; Host community friends
- On the left is Слава Скребнева (Slava Skrebneva), my host-mom for three years while I was in Stakhanov, Ukraine. I'm in the middle and on the right is one of our good friends. We are standing in front of the Afghanistan War Memorial...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Volunteer in Sri Lanka
- Host families; Host community friends; Environment
- Photo of host father and friends enjoying themselves in the water pond in Pibidunugama-Sri Lanka.
- Volunteer Photos
- Waking Up in 13 de Abril
- Host families; Host community
- Volunteer Stories
- Peace Corps Times (September-October 1984)
- Newsletters--1980s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (September-October, 1984)
- Newsletters
- Two Families - Forty Years
- Host families
- Volunteer Stories
- Voluntee Talks to Host Family
- Host families; Food and meals
- 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.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Talks with Host Family
- Food and meals; Host families
- 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
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Talks to Host Family
- Host families; food and meals
- 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.
- Agency Photos
- Family Compound
- Host families; Housing; Animals
- Visiting a Volunteer's home and meeting her host mother and the family sheep, near Bab Boudir.
- Staff Photos
- 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