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    • Washing dishes

    • Washing dishes

    • host families

    • I'm washing my host family's dishes in the early morning in the courtyard of their home. I explained to my host family that even though I'm a guest, I can contribute to the household and do some chores, just as I was brought up to do in America. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Waste Not, Want Not

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • The people of Issan (Northeast Thailand) are very resourceful, especially when it comes to eating. This is a boiling ox placenta. It so happens that the calf was named "Farang" (which means foreigner) in my honor. I was the first one to be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • host community friends

    • My dad came to visit me for two weeks in August 2011. While spending an evening at the bar mingling with the local men, one of them asked him if he'd like to go fishing with him in the morning, even though they didn't speak the same language. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching on

    • Watching on

    • Host community; Education

    • A bunch of kids from school were watching the Moroccan men (all volunteers) work on the elementary's school's new bathroom (June 2011) in Elkassaba El Khir, Tata, Morocco.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation

    • This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Project

    • Water Project

    • Water and sanitation; Host community friends

    • Robert "RJ" Harper in Livingston, Guatemala moments after installing a water project with the local Garifuna community.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water: A Gift

    • Water: A Gift

    • water and sanitation; host community friends

    • Water in Cambodia is not a sparse commodity, at least during the rainy season. My host family used the pool of water in their back yard to clean clothes and dishes, as well as jump into when they were hot after playing volleyball. Rain in Cambodia...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watermelon Nights

    • Watermelon Nights

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in my host family's apartment. I loved nights when they bought a watermelon. Everyone in the family, their neighbors and various other parties would squeeze together around the living room table to snack on the sweet summer...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Roll Together

    • We Roll Together

    • Cooking; Host families; Food and meals

    • This is a photo of my host mother (Aishe) and I. This was the first time we made byrek together. She was teaching me how to effectively roll thin layers of pastry dough for the byrek. The photo was taken March 20, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We're Family

    • We're Family

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken after a year of service, in June of 2004, when I went back to my training site in the community of Koujol, not far from Archaie, Haiti, to visit my host family. The little girl on the right, Kenya, was born during my 3...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • This photo was taken in September 2009 during Peace Corps training while I was staying with my host family. My host mother and auntie were teaching me how to weave mats on the weekends. I (Bina Contreras) am on the left, my host mother "Mama...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • Weaving is a big part of a woman's life in Vanuatu. This is a photo of me learning how to weave mats from dried pandanus leaves with my host aunt Monique.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • Weaving is a big part of a woman's life in Vanuatu. This is a photo of me learning how to weave mats from dried pandanus leaves with my host aunt Monique.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Silk

    • Weaving Silk

    • Crafts; Artisans; Host families

    • This is a picture of my host mother's eldest sister weaving silk on the loom outside of her house. This practice is traditionally passed down to women from generation to generation. Women all over the village (mainly the elders) can be seen making...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Agriculture

    • A welcome dinner hosted by the executive members of Binaba Women's Farmers Association (BWFA) at my house in January 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Welcoming Ceremony at a Wat

    • Children; Host community; Ceremonies

    • Welcoming Ceremony at the Wat: None of us understand much of anything that is going on around us, but we understand when a little girl is diligently collecting every one of the best-smelling flowers in the room for her own. Much to our amusement,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcoming Guests

    • Welcoming Guests

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • I took the time to welcome all the guests who made it to the opening ceremony of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta in my village of Adeta, Togo, including the smallest ones. The ceremony dedicated the new center to the village of Adeta and was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • West African Skateboarding

    • West African Skateboarding

    • Markets; Host community; Volunteers

    • In February 2010, a fellow volunteer Coleman, got a package from the United States with his old skateboard. We were both volunteers in rural Burkina Faso so we took advantage of the few days we had off in Burkina's capital, Ouagadougou, where there...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What is a Hammock?

    • What is a Hammock?

    • host community friends; children

    • A Fijian family lives below me. They have two young sons, and there is another boy the age of their sons that lives next door. When I am outside doing laundry or reading in my hammock they'll come bug me, its kind of silly because they speak little...
    • Volunteer Photos

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