I lived with a family in Hinche, Haiti for a few months before moving out on my own. I kept in close touch with Fabienne, this little girl, and she came by often to play. This day we colored and read stories that my mom sent from the States.
My time as a Peace Corps Volunteer was spent on a very tiny, very remote island in the South Pacific, in Tonga. The island, Ha'afeva, is about a mile and a half long, and one mile wide. Because it's so small and so remote, most of the food on the...
This photo was taken January 20, 2013 at the fairgrounds in Costa Rica. One week every January the community hosts a large festival with great food, music, rides and rodeos. This picture is on the last night of the fiesta.
This photo was taken after an elementary school presentation of "It's OK to be Friends," a puppet show I wrote for the Palau Red Cross Society to serve as a tool to educate children that you can't catch AIDS by being a friend. I made all the...
In the school where I worked in Darkhan Village, Kyrgyzstan, students like these two 3rd-grade girls use the cyrillic alphabet in all their classes. They can speak Kyrgyz and Russian, but learning English is difficult, because they have to learn a...
My name is Nic, I have been a Peace Corps education Volunteer in Mozambique since 2011. I teach French and English to very talented 11th and 12th graders. Last month I organized the town's first annual Cultural Day to give my students an...
I got back from a six day backpacking trip with other volunteers and my tent need cleaning. Like everything I do in the Peace Corps this soon turned into a learning experience for the kids on my street.
The photo was taken during the annual feria parade in my site in Guatemala. Every school in the town participates and has to make a costume. The school presented in the photo is one of the schools I work with called EORM El Mezcal. They chose the...
Marketing campaigns; Returned Volunteer services; Volunteer recruitment
Full text of a brochure highlighting four of the earliest Peace Corps Volunteers--what inspired them to join, what they encountered overseas and how their experiences have helped shape their lives after their Peace Corps service. Although no exact...