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- Christie on the Batey
- Health; Host families
- This is Christina with haitian migrant workers and family members on the batey where she was a Health Volunteer in the Dominican Republic.
- Staff Photos
- Peace Corps Volunteer (August 1969)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (August 1969).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (May-June 1988)
- Newsletters--1980s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (May-June, 1988)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (January-February 1989)
- Newsletters--1980s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (January-February, 1989)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times: 30th Anniversary Keepsake Edition (March 1, 1991)
- Newsletters--1990s
- Full text of the special thirtieth anniversary edition of the Peace Corps Times (March 1, 1991).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Fall 1993)
- Newsletters--1990s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Fall, 1993). Listed as issue "Number Three."
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (May 1965)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (May 1965).
- Newsletters
- Lighting the Way
- Host families
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- Knedlicki
- Cooking; Host families
- Elaine and our host family mother, making the Czech national dumpling, knedlicki. Their version won first prize in the knedliki contest.
- Volunteer Photos
- Fathers in the Eastern Caribbean
- Host families; Volunteers
- 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.
- Volunteer Photos
- Collecting the Harvest for Wine and Rakia-Making
- Host families; Food and meals
- 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,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Gringo Tsachi
- Host families; Traditional dress; Secondary projects; Celebrations
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- Making Tamales with Nina Margarita
- Food and meals; Host families; Cooking
- 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....
- Volunteer Photos
- Christmas Dinner
- Animals; Host families
- On Christmas Eve, 2004, I was planning a traditional dinner with my Salvadoran family. They were bartering with the door to door hen saleswoman over the price of the hen in the picture. The asking price was $6, the family wanted to pay $4, and I...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tamales Pisque in Tienda Margara
- Food and meals; Host families
- My adopted Salvadoran family owned a store where I spent much of my free time. They always wanted to make sure I had eaten, and on this particular day near the end of my service I was helping them finish leftovers of my favorite Salvadoran dish-...
- Volunteer Photos
- Times, They Are a-Changing
- Technology; Host families
- When I arrived in Cuisnahuat in 2003 few people knew what the internet was. When I left in 2005 most had never used a computer, much less been online. Nothing could have come a a bigger shock than the fact that when I came back in 2010 I was able...
- Volunteer Photos
- Turkmenistan Training Group
- Host families; Animals
- With a fellow Volunteer's host mother and little host sister, we pose in our teaching clothes beside (and on top of) "Good Camel," named because she was much nicer -- and less spitting -- than the other camel on the compound. 2007
- Volunteer Photos
- Lisa in Guinea on Ramadan
- Traditional dress; Celebrations; Host families
- This picture was taken by my host sister in my village of Dinguiraye, Haute Guinea on the last day of Ramadan in 2008. It shows my host mom, "Mama Kadi" in her finest celebration clothes, and myself wearing a "bazin complet" dress and a veil that...
- Volunteer Photos
- Music is a Universal Language
- Pre-Service Training (PST); Host families
- After a long day of language classes during pre-service training in Senegal, Volunteer Melanie Chamberlain finds a quiet corner in her family compound to sit and listen to music with one of her young host brothers. The pair sat and listened to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Visiting Samoa
- Host families
- Deputy Director and RPCV Carrie Hessler-Radelet, her father and her host family during her family's visit from Michigan (Western Samoa, 1983)
- Volunteer Photos