I took this photo during the mango and citrus grafting training on May 26, 2013 in a classroom of the primary school in Senegal. Master Farmer Amadou Gano came to the village to train 7 women and 8 men in grafting technique. Mawlin, one of the...
I took this photo during the mango and citrus grafting training on May 26, 2013 in a classroom of the primary school in Senegal. Master Farmer Amadou Gano came to the village to train 7 women and 8 men in grafting technique. Kadja Balde, one of...
I took this photo during the mango and citrus grafting training on May 26, 2013 in a classroom of the primary school in Senegal. Master Farmer Amadou Gano came to the village to train 7 women and 8 men in grafting technique. Maimouna Mballo, one...
March 2009 - Concord, Grenada
These are the volunteers in the 79th group in the Eastern Carribean island of Greanda. Our journey to the Peace Corps has led us to this.
March 2009 - Concord, Grenada, West Indies
There are the volunteers of EC 79 in Grenada. This was our first real bonding experience that we had hiking to Concord Waterfalls.
July 2010 - With the assistance of the Small Project Assistance (SPA) grant, Volunteer Katherine Miller was able to work with the Programme for Adolescent Mothers in Grenada to host a summer retreat for the students enrolled in the organization.
In this photo, Volunteer Katherine Grace (Gracie) Magruder presents the results of an Edzi Toto-inspired AIDS Quiz with a local high school English class from the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde.
Edzi Toto is a youth group from Malawi who are...
On December 1st 2012, Peace Corps Cape Verde celebrated what would be its last AIDS Day in country as not soon after Peace Corps would announce its graduation from the country it has so loyally served since 1988.
In this photo, Volunteer...
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.
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.
Located on the Tebra River, the St. John's Lutheran Church seen here was built around 1860. The settlement in the area dates back to the year 1253. I took this photo in the fall of 2000 and was the first Peace Corps Volunteer assigned to Aizpute,...
Here are some of our students playing a game centered on myths and facts about AIDS/HIV. This took place at a nursing school in Mongolia during the school's first Worlds AIDS Awareness Day on December 2, 2009.
This photo was taken at the school of nursing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on December 2nd, 2009. My counterparts and I wrote a grant to a local agency asking for condoms and educational materials. We received them plus t-shirts and each of my...
The Volunteers of Group 9 Latvia gather with Peace Corps training staff in Valmiera, Latvia toward the end of our training in Summer 2000. We are in the ruins of a castle believed to have been built in the 1280s.
This photo was taken during my training summer 2000 in Valmiera, Latvia. This photo shows the Latvian tradition of jumping over a fire for good luck throughout the next year on the shortest night of the year. Latvia celebrates the Summer Solstice...
Location: Mangabe, Madagascar; March 2011; This is one of many endemic chameleon species found in Madagascar. Malagasy people are terrified of chameleons, with their googly eyes and stutter-step walk, and have been known to run screaming in the...
Madagascar in June 2011. This is just another sleepy afternoon in a fishing village in Madagascar . The days haul has been brought in, all that remains is for the children to play amongst the canoes.
Location: Maromandia, Madagascar; April 2011; This photo was taken on the day I hosted a large fuel-efficient cookstove project at my local EPP (Public Elementary School). Nearly two hundred students attended and participated in the construction of...