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    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Young Women in Contrast

    • Maternal and child health

    • This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Malaria Day Rally

    • World Malaria Day Rally

    • Malaria; Celebrations; Education

    • As a PCRV in Liberia, I joined the Liberian Red Cross in a World Malaria Day 2010 rally in downtown Tubmanburg, Liberia. Participants marched through downtown ending at the Red Cross Headquarters, where an informational program was given.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Art

    • While serving in Liberia, West Africa in 1981-82, I was stationed in Cape Palmas teaching Architecture. Because I am an artist I made many watercolor studies of the people and their environments throughout the area. Now I have revived several of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Two Old Ladies

    • Two Old Ladies

    • Elders; Children

    • I served as town photographer while teaching secondary school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. This sitting was of an older woman and her grand daughter who were both called "Old Lady." Out of respect for her age, the woman was Old...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trust Fall

    • Trust Fall

    • youth development

    • Photo taken in 2010 during a peer education workshop in Tubmanburg, Liberia. The students are demonstrating the trust fall...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Travelling Market

    • The Travelling Market

    • Markets

    • Why go to the market when the market will come to you? This little boy is selling clothes out of a wheelbarrow. He will walk around town and the surrounding villages selling his goodies.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity

    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity

    • dance; traditional dress

    • Music and dance are part of Liberian life. In 1972 some of the people in Kolila, Liberia where I was the first Peace Corps volunteer from 1971-1973 surprised me with a visit from the Play Devil. The sounds of one musician soon called many of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Money Bus

    • The Money Bus

    • Transportation

    • All travel in upcountry Liberia was by taxi or “money bus”. There was no schedule. When a taxi driver got a full complement of at least 6 passengers he would leave. The Peugeot station wagon was the car of choice. The “money bus”...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sunk!

    • Sunk!

    • Transportation

    • This was the only ship that transported people and goods from Greenville to Monrovia. Unfortunately, those days are over. It was overloaded with people, bags of rice, Hondas, and various other goodies that proved to be just a little too much. There...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stuck Again

    • Stuck Again

    • Transportation

    • Well, what can I say? Here we are, stuck in the mud... again. We were traveling in Southeastern Liberia in the middle of the rainy season. At least the view was gorgeous to look at while we worked our way through!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Street Sign

    • Street Sign

    • Malaria

    • Serving as a PCRV in Liberia, I came across this sign along the roadside of my hometown of Tubmanburg. It reminds people to sleep under their mosquito nets at night to protect from malaria.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stanley and Tarlue

    • Stanley and Tarlue

    • Children

    • These are two neighbor boys in Ziahtown (Zwedru County, Liberia) with a tow money bus that they made themselves from bamboo. The windshield was made from the plastic wrap from tee shirts my parents had sent to me. The photo was taken in 1976.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • St. Martin’s Catholic Mission

    • St. Martin’s Catholic Mission

    • Schools

    • One of two school buildings that housed grades 1-7. The school eventually went to ninth grade. I taught a class of 55 students in grades 5 and 6. The school year was from March to the first of December. Gbarnga, Liberia, 1968.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saint Martin Saints

    • Saint Martin Saints

    • Teachers and students; Sports

    • Joe Jauregui pictured with the St. Martin basketball team. Basketball was introduced by Peace Corps Volunteers in upcountry Liberia prior to my arrival. It had been popular in the capital city of Monrovia for many years. Tubman Methodist Mission...
    • Volunteer Photos

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