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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I took this photo during the spring of 1981 in my village, Kyeong Ae Won, South Korea. The village was home to about 125 residents, over 75% of whom had leprosy.
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.