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    • A Camel's Kiss

    • A Camel's Kiss

    • Animals; Traditional dress

    • This picture was taken at one of the New Seven Wonders of the World and Jordan's most popular tourist spot: Petra. 4 volunteers met up for a little excursion out of site. I was walking around Petra on the hot day, and decided to take a picture with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gara Gum Desert

    • Gara Gum Desert

    • Children; Host families; Terrain

    • This is a picture taken of my host family on the edge of the Gara Gum desert in Bolshevik, Turkmenistan. The family took me out to see the desert and we played soccer on the dunes.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • READ!

    • READ!

    • Children; Teachers and students

    • As a Peace Corps Response Volunteer, I'm currently living and working with an indigenous group of Amerindians in a remote village of Guyana. One day my younger students and I were reading books and decided we wanted a picture of ourselves, just...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Uzbek Host Family

    • Uzbek Host Family

    • food and meals; host families

    • I was invited over to my host family's mother's home, a lovely compound in the southern Uzbek mountains. We feasted, toasted and had a lovely time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pasca

    • Pasca

    • Religion; Celebrations

    • Easter is a special time in Ukraine. While still in pre-service training, my cluster and I were taken by our language and cultural facilitator to the local art school in our village. We were told we would paint eggs. We were not told it would take...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • READ!!!

    • READ!!!

    • schools; children

    • This photo was taken at Saint Monica's Primary School located along the Upper Pomeroon in the country of Guyana in March of 2011. It was taken during the reading lesson of the day, where the students would share the stories they read to the rest...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kadou Festival Bole

    • Kadou Festival Bole

    • Celebrations; Music

    • Kadou Festival celebrate primarily in the western corner of the Northern Region of Ghana as well as the bordering area in Cote d'Ivoure by Muslims to mark the coming end of Ramadan which occurs three days later. Originally done as a courting...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • I've had it up to here with you!

    • I've had it up to here with you!

    • construction; children

    • After long day of working on our community hall digging up sand for concrete, we decided to bury some of the bothersome children in the sand on our beach. Pictured our Jo, who assisted in the burying and is holding the shovel, and the children...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fijian War Meke

    • Fijian War Meke

    • dance; traditional dress

    • This photo was taken in July 2010 with members of my host village in Natuvu, Fiji. We are performing a Fijian War Meke (dance) with a wau (club). It was done during in the past before the men went off to war with another tribe. If you look...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mandari Women Peeling Cassava

    • Mandari Women Peeling Cassava

    • Food and meals; Cooking; Agriculture

    • I took this picture on Sept. 9th, 2010 during one of my many trips to a village called Mandari in my operational area. Cassava is a widely consumed tuber which grows all over Ghana. These women ban together to peel, chop, ferment, mill, press,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Death by Yaqona

    • Death by Yaqona

    • host community friends

    • Although not really dead, these gentlemen decided to take a nap right outside our house on a hot day for the nice cool ocean breeze. It is common custom in Natuvu village that on Saturday the men drink yaqona or kava and then on Sunday spend the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roasting Casaba

    • Roasting Casaba

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • This photo taken in Suriname, South America, depicts a Peace Corps Volunteer, Matthew Day, engaging in the traditional local activity of making Kwak. Kwak, a staple food of the Maroon Aukan diet, coming from the Casaba Root, and involves a long,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Putting the Pieces Together

    • Putting the Pieces Together

    • HIV/AIDS

    • The photo was taken on World AIDS Day 2011 at a health center in Cambodia. The picture is of a girl who was visiting the health center that morning. She helped glue pieces red paper to complete an HIV/AIDS ribbon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Information is Multifaceted

    • Information is Multifaceted

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at a primary school in Cambodia on World AIDS Day 2011. Each student was given a red ribbon and a cube containing information about HIV/AIDS along with a short lecture on the topic. The picture shows a student with a ribbon...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Future is Now

    • The Future is Now

    • HIV/AIDS; Children

    • The photo is from World AIDS Day 2011 at a primary school in Cambodia. The photo shows a student who has already pinned his HIV/AIDS ribbon and is waiting to listen to a presentation on HIV/AIDS.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation

    • This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Matthew and the keyboard

    • Matthew and the keyboard

    • technology; education

    • I took this photo on September 6th, 2011 in the newly completed computer lab at Ramotshinyadi HIV/AIDS Youth Guide in South Africa. This was the first computer class in the lab, and was provided to seven local youths, most of whom had never used a...
    • Volunteer Photos

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