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A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...
When my husband and I visited Turkey 45 years after I had been a Peace Corps Volunteer, we were invited to stay with one of my former students, Huseyin. He, his wife Hafize and daughter were living in Istanbul, far from Kirikhan in southeastern...
The town I lived in, Khotyn, is home to a 1,000 year old fortress, which is a great source of pride for the residents and one of the things I loved most about living there. I took this very snowy picture of the fortress, with the Dnister River in...
The Last Bell ceremony in Ukrainian schools marks the last day of school, or the last bell of the school year. One of the youngest first formers and the oldest eleventh formers get the honor of ringing the actual last bell. This picture was taken...
On market day in my town, Kirikhan, in southeastern Turkey, villagers sold produce like dried beans or eggplant, fresh tomatoes, onions, and green beans. I had never seen an open market like this with women wearing colorful shalvars, baggy pants...