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    • Liberia XIII Kpelle In-Country Training Program

    • Liberia XIII Kpelle In-Country Training Program

    • In-country training; Children

    • Liberia XIII was the first in-country training program in Liberia. After a two week staging process in Philadelphia our group flew directly to Liberia. We were all educators. Our training consisted of teaching at a vacation school conducted at...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gbarnga Meat Shop

    • Gbarnga Meat Shop

    • Food and meals

    • Every Saturday morning a local farmer would kill one of his cattle and sell the meat at the local market. This was the only fresh meat that was sold in town. Unfortunately, the meat was tougher than shoe leather. My diet was rice mixed with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Money Bus

    • The Money Bus

    • Transportation

    • All travel in upcountry Liberia was by taxi or “money bus”. There was no schedule. When a taxi driver got a full complement of at least 6 passengers he would leave. The Peugeot station wagon was the car of choice. The “money bus”...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • St. Martin’s Catholic Mission

    • St. Martin’s Catholic Mission

    • Schools

    • One of two school buildings that housed grades 1-7. The school eventually went to ninth grade. I taught a class of 55 students in grades 5 and 6. The school year was from March to the first of December. Gbarnga, Liberia, 1968.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saint Martin Saints

    • Saint Martin Saints

    • Teachers and students; Sports

    • Joe Jauregui pictured with the St. Martin basketball team. Basketball was introduced by Peace Corps Volunteers in upcountry Liberia prior to my arrival. It had been popular in the capital city of Monrovia for many years. Tubman Methodist Mission...
    • Volunteer Photos

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