I took this photo in August 2010 in Podor, Senegal while helping with a shoe distribution to a dara, a koranic school where students are sent to study the Koran under the instruction of a religious teacher called a marabout. These talibes, koranic...
camps and clubs; girls' education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); food and meals
This photo was taken of Sarah, an environmental education PCV in Senegal, while she teaches middles school girls how to make apple pie during the food cultural exchange session of our girls' leadership camp July 2011 in Ndioum, Senegal.
In July 2007, Peace Corps Volunteers in Lesotho cooperated with Professor Jane Hale and a literacy project out of Brandeis University to encourage parents to read to young children. This photo was taken in Maseru on a day when awards were given to...
In Lesotho, the village paths on Sundays are lined with ladies walking to church, all with traditional Basotho blankets (mofu) over their shoulders. Each blanket pattern has a name, linked to symbols of tribes or crops. The center blanket...
I snapped this photo of first graders sitting on paint cans in Masia Primary School, Tsatsane Valley of Quthing Region, Lesotho, as I traveled as an Education Volunteer in April 2007, doing teacher observations. Their cute smiles show they are...
In November of 2007, in our training village in Lesotho, I happened upon kids on a path, who wanted to dance. Kids live in the present, so now's as good a time for any to dance. I like this photo because in my three years as a Peace Corps...
A wonderful Christmas tradition in hot December LESOTHO were dance competitions, where teens of two towns competed against one another for a title of best dancers. In 2008, these teens in Ha Makebe, not too far from the capital city of Maseru, had...
In April 2007 I was doing school visits far from the main road in the remote, mountainous Tsatsane Valley (Quthing province, LESOTHO). This orphan boy wandered by the hut where I was overnighting. The neck of his guitar was an old piece of wood...
If you line up 4 year olds in just about any country in the world, you get as many poses - shy, silly, naughty, thumb-suckers. In the village of Mt. Moorosi (Quthing region of LESOTHO) in April 2007, though, my little neighbor was one of the kids....