This photo was taken at a youth event for primary school students at the Southern Mountain Association for Rural Transformation and Development Center in Lesotho on September 6th, 2011. The picture shows two young girls reading a picture atlas. The...
The town I spent my service in is named Nedelino. This view captures most of the town from a hotel on a nearby mountain. Nestled in the Rhodopi Mountains, Nedelino still uses Roman and Turkish bridges to cross the river, has both mosques and a...
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,...
My good friend Slavi took me and some other volunteers for a walk to his cottage in the countryside, and on the way we encountered his mother's donkey. Being a normal mode of transportation in and around my town, Slavi proceeded to show us how to...
Work; Children; Celebrations; Teachers and students
I spent an hour a week with a group of 4-5 year olds at one of the local kindergartens. I was asked to share some American holidays with them, and told them about Thanksgiving. The children seemed very excited about turkeys, so we made turkeys by...
Full text of Who's Who in the Peace Corps--Washington, which includes staff bios of many of the founding staff members of the Peace Corps. Approximate date of publication is 1963.
Pres. Joaquin Balaguer giving out titles to re-distributed land in Valverde, Mao, 1967-1968. Taken by James A. FIndlay, volunteer, 1966-69, Valverde, Mao and Santiago (UCMM).
James Vol Hartwell is a Primary English Medium Advisior at a rural school on the Lawas River leading the students in singing "I wash my Hands in Muddy Water" as part of an English lesson. The teacher, Miss Tan, is writing the words on the...