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.
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: Ambavani'Djangoa River, Djangoa, Madagascar; August 2011; A traditional Malagasy fishing canoe on the freshwater river that leads to the Mozambique Channel.
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...
This is a photo of the chess club at my school attachment. I helped get the club started and my grandparents donated chess sets and teaching boards. This photo was taken just after the kids finished playing a simultaneous game with our Peace Corps...
April 2010 - Grenada.
The students of New Life Organisation (NewLO) celebrating earth day by picking up trash, planting flowers around their school and creating musical instruments from recycled items
Our group just after swearing in, April 2009. From left to right: speaker, Sharmon Jules (Associate Peace Corps Director), Margo Jeanchild (Eastern Caribbean Director), Mara English (Volunteer), Aria Grabowski (Volunteer), trainer, Ann Maize...
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.
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...
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...