These high school girls just finished dancing a typical kichwa dance representing their culture at an exposition in Tena, Ecuador. The dance competition was between rural and urban high schools in the region with categories such as original and...
This photo is taken on the Rio Napo in Ecuador. A leaf called 'barbasco' is traditionally used as a fishing technique, as it consumes the oxygen in the water through its natural toxins and the fish die. The crushed leaf is released in the water...
Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp participants play trust
games, helping them to feel comfortable with one other in hopes of encouraging them to open up and share their experiences. During the April 2012 camp, several youth led seminars on HIV...
I took this photo in January 2011 at a primary school in Guyana. Our school had just implemented a student government program. This specific day was our election day complete with campaigning, a polling booth and voting. For each student who passed...
Third Goal; Teachers and Students; Traditional dress
On Thursday, February 28, 2013 over 200 students at Oscar DePriest Elementary School in Austin, Chicago attended presentations about Lindsay Goldberg's experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar and Niger. A group of the 4th grade...
This photo was taken out of a Peace Corps SUV when we were leaving our homestay village in September 2007. Four Volunteers were posted in Tamala, Mali to learn Bambara and about Malian culture. We had made tight bonds with these villagers in an...
I took this photo on a clear day during my training in July 2010 in Cambodia. I went to this pagoda to study language with another Volunteer and we were captivated by the beauty. This photo depicts the roof of one pagoda.
I took this picture on a visit to a students home in northeastern Cambodia. These are her two youngest sisters and he younger brother in the background.
I took this photo during a morning walk one day in my village in January, 2011 in Cambodia. Though I frequent the same roads daily on my walks/runs I am still bombarded with children yelling "Hello!" at me. This is my favorite group of children who...
I took this photo in December 2010 in Cambodia. The photo shows my ya-ee (Khmer language for grandmother) fanning herself on another hot Cambodian day.