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    • PECHEEK

    • PECHEEK

    • celebrations

    • This photo is taken from a 3 day long health related camp a volunteer, Dara Lipton (seen in background wearing Angel wings) organized around Halloween. She used her fellow Volunteers and the American holiday to promote the 1st and 2nd Goals of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Puru Blaka

    • Puru Blaka

    • funerals; traditional dress

    • This is an Ingi Puru Blaka, a traditional ceremony taking place in my village, Redi Doti, in Resortt Caroline, Para District, Suriname. The idea behind this ceremony is that while a family is in mourning following the death of a loved one, they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carolina Boats

    • Carolina Boats

    • transportation

    • Boats resting on the sandy banks of the Suriname river when the tide is out. I took the photo one a journey back to my village of Redi Doti (About 2 kilometers down river and 2 kilometers into the jungle) as I waited for a Ferry Boat to take me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV/AIDS Awareness Camp

    • HIV/AIDS Awareness Camp

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo the summer of 2008, during an HIV/AIDS awareness camp held in Ivanychi, Ukraine. The three students seen here, from the 8th form, created the poster as a project to show what they learned. The poster says "We Stop AIDS Together"...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Family, Nosivka, Ukraine

    • Host Family, Nosivka, Ukraine

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in Spring of 2007, when I went back to my training site to visit my host family during Spring Break. My family consisted of my host sister, mom and grandmother. Even though I only lived with them for three months, they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taras Shevchenko Monument

    • Taras Shevchenko Monument

    • Statues and monuments

    • This is a photo of two Volunteers on an outing around Chernigiv, Ukraine during their three months of in country training. The statue is of Taras Shevchenko, a revered artist and writer, who is a symbol of Ukrainian freedom and independence.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Joy of Being a Woman

    • The Joy of Being a Woman

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Women's movement

    • This photo was taken on National Mozambican Women's Day, April 7th, 2010. This is a day where all women are commemorated in Mozambique, which is important in Mozambique's struggle to gain gender equality. Pictured is a young woman teacher trainee...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Midwifery Course "Graduation"

    • Midwifery Course "Graduation"

    • Nurses; Maternal and child health

    • I handed my camera to the daughter of one of the midwives who completed our midwifery course. A Peace Corp nurse developed the course with her Paraguayan nurse counterpart through the Ministry of Health and had success in her town. We then used it...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kyeong Ae Won Elders

    • Kyeong Ae Won Elders

    • Elders

    • I took this photo during the fall of 1980 in my village, Kyeong Ae Won, South Korea. These three gentlemen were patients and residents of the village. Passing time sitting on the front stoop of a home was a common site.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Walking to the Rice Field

    • Walking to the Rice Field

    • Agriculture; Host families

    • I took this photo shortly after arriving at my site in Fiadanana, Madagascar in May of 2008. This picture shows three of my neighbors (Andrea, her mother Helen and her sister in law Elva) crossing a river to get to their rice field. This day was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Testing Out a Fuel Efficient Cookstove

    • Testing Out a Fuel Efficient Cookstove

    • Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Food and meals

    • I took this photo of the women's group (and children) in my village of Fiadanana, Madagascar in May 2008. I had inherited a fuel efficient cookstove project from the previous volunteer. The women and I had recently completed this cookstove and we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rice Harvest

    • Rice Harvest

    • Agriculture

    • I took this photo in January of 2009 in Fiadanana, Madagascar. The woman all the way to the right in this picture owned many of the rice fields in this area and let me use this plot to experiment with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Litchi Season!

    • Litchi Season!

    • Agriculture; Host community friends

    • I took this photo during litchi harvest time in November in Fiadanana, Madagascar. It shows my friends Andrea and Elva separating the fruit form the branch so that they could be packed in baskets and sold to drivers that would bring them to the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Threshing Rice

    • Threshing Rice

    • Agriculture; Host families

    • My host sister took this photo of my other host sister Christina, her son Sitraka and myself. I was training as an Environment Volunteer in Mahitsitady, Madagascar in March of 2008. Rice is the staple food crop for the Malagasy so harvest time is...
    • Volunteer Photos

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