I took this photo on May 16th, 2008 on the Rio Paraguay in Alto Paraguay province. Boat day only happens once a week in isolated border towns where the massive Pantanal wetland meets the Chaco desert. When the boat arrives, it's the town's only...
I took this photo on May 16th, 2008 in Alto Paraguay. The Rio Paraguay is an active lifeline for the people of the region, but it was a picture of serenity at this moment.
I took this photo during my last days of service in Paraguay on November 7th, 2008 just before the wedding of a fellow Volunteer to a host country national. The wedding took place in a small rural community. Horse carts like this are commonly used...
This photo from August 24th, 2007 was taken in my site of Ruta'i, Torin, Caaguazu in Paraguay. It is of a boy loading an oxcart with sugarcane that will be used to feed other animals.
Food and meals; Host community; Host community friends
This photo taken on August 27th, 2006 shows my wife and I engaged in the classic Paraguayan ritual with our favorite progressive farmer in our site in Paraguay. Sharing the indigenous green tea, yerba mate, with a communal cup is the universal way...
I took this photo Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, on November 6th, 2008, during my last days as a Peace Corps Volunteer. It is a classic urban bus ("collectivo"), where the vast majority of people are nominally Catholic.
Host community; Transportation; Host community friends
This photo was taken August 25th, 2007 along the Pan-American Highway near my site in Paraugay. It shows my wife and I joking with Paraguayans about how we get around on banana-powered bicycles.
I took this photo on February 23rd, 2008 at a roadside farm stand in Paraguay. My wife was joking with the local boy in Guarani about which one is the tastiest.
On November 15th, 2007, I took this photo in my site of the president of the San Isidro farmers' committee, proudly displaying his committee's tools for no-till agriculture: a direct seeder ("sembradora") and roller crimper ("rollo cuchillo") for...
I took this photo on October 18th, 2007 in my site in Paraguay. Neni is demonstrating a creative reuse of the abundant sour orange rinds available in the community: plantable seed-starting pots.
Part of the job is sometimes just hanging out with the kids in the community. These two siblings were my favorite "muchachos" in my community in the Dominican Republic from 2008-1010. They would be at my house from the second I opened my doors to...
This was recently after arriving at my site; delivering an interactive presentation touching on mother-child health practices. There were rumors of multiple cyclones barreling in off the east coast, but the chances of them reaching our arid and...
Biking through the harsh dry savannah in the unforgiving heat to implement health trainings with my exceptionally outstanding counterpart Dr. Mamy. We were well received in the village of Marondrano, located in the Great South of Madagascar. The...
This is my loving host family during PST in Mahitsitady ("the rope of straightness") Madagascar; to my right is my host mother Esther and down below her is little Toky